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Practically 90 years after Amelia Earhart vanished throughout her try to fly world wide, and amid renewed political consideration concerning her disappearance, a museum in her hometown continues to honor her legacy.
The Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum, which opened in 2023 in Atchison, Kansas, options greater than a dozen displays and goals to “encourage all generations within the pursuit of flight,” in keeping with the museum’s web site.
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The museum’s centerpiece is “Muriel,” the world’s final remaining Lockheed Electra 10-E — which is an identical to the airplane Earhart flew on her fateful try to fly across the globe in 1937. Muriel is called after Earhart’s sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey, the web site notes.
Amelia Earhart Putnam is pictured right here. Practically 90 years after she vanished throughout her try to fly world wide, a Kansas museum in her hometown continues to honor her legacy. (Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
In-built 1935, Muriel flew for Pan American Airways and later served U.S. commuters earlier than falling into disrepair. It was later rescued by a pilot in California and was restored over three a long time.
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“For 30 years, it was painstakingly restored, with the objective of flying it on the identical world flight path as Amelia,” as famous on the web site. “Sadly, well being circumstances prevented the flight.”
The Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum, which opened in 2023 in Atchison, Kansas, options greater than a dozen displays and goals to “encourage all generations within the pursuit of flight.” (Michael Siluk/UCG/Common Photographs Group through Getty Photographs Group through Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
Muriel is surrounded by 14 interactive displays that “take guests by Earhart’s adventurous life.” This consists of her time rising up in Kansas to the peak of her fame as the primary lady to fly solo throughout the Atlantic Ocean in 1932, in keeping with the web site.
Friends can step inside a full-scale duplicate of Muriel’s cockpit, hear the roar of the engine that powered her plane, strive their hand at riveting, discover Amelia’s digitized scrapbook, expertise a digital actuality flight simulator, uncover accomplishments of different girls in aviation, and extra, the web site notes.
Folks take a look at the Lockheed Electra 10-E plane named Muriel on the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum in Atchison, Kansas. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Common Photographs Group through Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
The Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum additionally hosts occasions and sells merchandise.
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President Donald Trump introduced Friday that he would declassify and launch authorities information associated to Earhart and her remaining flight, saying the aviation pioneer’s story “has captivated thousands and thousands for practically a century.”
Muriel is surrounded by 14 interactive displays that “take guests by Earhart’s adventurous life.” (Michael Siluk/UCG/Common Photographs Group through Getty Photographs)
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“Amelia made it virtually three-quarters of the best way world wide earlier than she abruptly, and with out discover, vanished—by no means to be seen once more,” Trump wrote. “Her disappearance, virtually 90 years in the past, has captivated thousands and thousands. I’m ordering my Administration to declassify and launch all authorities information associated to Amelia Earhart, her remaining journey, and every little thing else about her.”
The Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum didn’t instantly reply to FOX Enterprise’ request for remark.
