Amelia Rose Earhart Space Museum, Earhart completed a circumnavigation of the globe in a single-engine airplane with her copilot, Shane Jordan. Her route was to fly across the US, then south into the Caribbean, northeast Brazil, the South Atlantic Ocean, then the African continent, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Islands, and the Pacific Ocean before returning to California. Earhart and Jordan started the global circumnavigation flight on June 26, 2014, departing Oakland, California at 8:19 am Pacific Standard Time in a single engine Pilatus PC-12 NG. They made 17 stops during the 24,300 nautical-mile trip over 108 flying hours, landing back in Oakland
Last Flight (book) Twenty hours and forty minutes later, the three found themselves in Burryport, Wales, completing their TransAtlantic flight. Although she did no actual piloting, Earhart tells that she did gain a lot of experience and “even dearer than such opportunities” (Amelia Earhart and George Palmer Putnam married in 1931). Following the “Friendship” flight, Earhart performed in a variety of flying exhibitions, but her aviation career began its climax in 1929 when the first women’s derby took place. She along with various other female pilots seized this unprecedented opportunity and competed, but several plane complications ensued for most flyers. It was not