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Earhart Search Records Declassified

Mission reports, correspondence, and radio logs are now public.

Amelia Earhart in Electra
Amelia Earhart in the cockpit of her Lockheed Electra 10-E [Credit: Purdue University Libraries]
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Key Takeaways:

It has been 88 years since Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappeared over the South Pacific. But until now the records of the search have remained classified.

In September, President Donald Trump ordered the details of the 1937 disappearance declassified, making them available from the National Archives.

Meg Godlewski

Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.

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