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Amelia Earhart before her takeoff

A black and white photograph of Amelia Earhart, in her flight suit, standing next to the open door of a vehicle. She is holding a thermos, a box and a fur lined coat.

Source: Conception Bay Museum Archives

Amelia Earhart at the Harbour Grace airstrip prior to her successful solo transatlantic flight, 1932. Bill Parsons captured this photograph of Earhart just before takeoff.

Earhart was the founder and first President of the Ninety-Nines Inc., the first female pilot organization.  Besides being a pilot, Amelia also worked as a nurse, a writer/author, a clothing designer and was very committed to women’s equal rights. She was a good friend of the First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.