Amelia Earhart's solo transatlantic flight
1932 · Event
Five years to the day after Lindbergh, Earhart flies her Lockheed Vega alone from Newfoundland through ice and a cracked manifold to a field near Derry — the first woman to solo the Atlantic.
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