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Almost 90 years after Amelia Earhart vanished throughout her try and 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 reveals and goals to “encourage all generations within the pursuit of flight,” in response to 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 and fly across the globe in 1937. Muriel is known as after Earhart’s sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey, the web site notes.
Amelia Earhart Putnam is pictured right here. Almost 90 years after she vanished throughout her try and fly world wide, a Kansas museum in her hometown continues to honor her legacy. (Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
Inbuilt 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 many years.
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“For 30 years, it was painstakingly restored, with the purpose 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 reveals and goals to “encourage all generations within the pursuit of flight.” (Michael Siluk/UCG/Common Photos Group through Getty Photos Group through Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
Muriel is surrounded by 14 interactive reveals that “take guests via Earhart’s adventurous life.” This consists of her time rising up in Kansas to the peak of her fame as the primary girl to fly solo throughout the Atlantic Ocean in 1932, in response to the web site.
Company can step inside a full-scale reproduction of Muriel’s cockpit, hear the roar of the engine that powered her plane, attempt their hand at riveting, discover Amelia’s digitized scrapbook, expertise a digital actuality flight simulator, uncover accomplishments of different ladies in aviation, and extra, the web site notes.
Individuals try the Lockheed Electra 10-E plane named Muriel on the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum in Atchison, Kansas. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Common Photos Group through Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
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 closing flight, saying the aviation pioneer’s story “has captivated thousands and thousands for almost a century.”
Muriel is surrounded by 14 interactive reveals that “take guests via Earhart’s adventurous life.” (Michael Siluk/UCG/Common Photos Group through Getty Photos)
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“Amelia made it nearly three-quarters of the way in which world wide earlier than she all of the sudden, and with out discover, vanished—by no means to be seen once more,” Trump wrote. “Her disappearance, nearly 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 closing journey, and every thing else about her.”
The Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum didn’t instantly reply to FOX Enterprise’ request for remark.
