page_title: Amelia Earhart
section_title: Records and achievements
hierarchical_section_title: Amelia Earhart / Records and achievements
caption_attribution_description: English: Amelia Earhart dressed to fly.
context_page_description: Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
  Born in Atchison, Kansas, Earhart developed a passion for adventure at a young age, steadily gaining flying experience from her twenties. In 1928, Earhart became the first female passenger to cross the Atlantic by airplane, for which she achieved celebrity status. In 1932, piloting a Lockheed Vega 5B, Earhart made a nonstop solo transatlantic flight, becoming the first woman to achieve such a feat. She received the United States Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment. In 1935, Earhart became a visiting faculty member at Purdue University as an advisor to aeronautical engineering and a career counselor to women students. She was also a member of the National Woman's Party and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.
context_section_description: Woman's world altitude record: 14,000 ft (1922)
  First woman to fly the Atlantic Ocean (1928)
  Speed records for 100 km (and with 500 lb (230 kg) cargo) (1931)
  First woman to fly an autogyro (1931)
  Altitude record for autogyros: 18,415 ft (1931)
  First woman to cross the United States in an autogyro (1931)
  First woman to fly the Atlantic solo (1932)
  First person to fly the Atlantic twice (1932)
  First woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross (1932)
  First woman to fly nonstop, coast-to-coast across the U.S. (1933)
  Women's speed transcontinental record (1933)
  First person to fly solo between Honolulu, Hawaii, and Oakland, California (1935)
  First person to fly solo from Los Angeles to Mexico City (1935)
  First person to fly solo nonstop from Mexico City to Newark, New Jersey (1935)
  Speed record for east-to-west flight from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii (1937)
  First person to fly solo from the Red Sea to Karachi (1937)
caption: Earhart's pilot license #6017 photo[Note 53][47]
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