Amelia Rose Earhart without incident on July 11, 2014. Although widely reported (and claiming) to have become the youngest woman to fly around the world, she is in fact the second youngest behind Richarda Morrow-Tait, who was also the first woman to pilot a plane around the globe. On July 9, 2014 as she and her mentor pilot were flying over Howland Island she announced, via Twitter, the names of the first recipients of the Fly With Amelia Foundation flight training scholarships. Amelia Rose Earhart Amelia Rose Earhart (born 1983 in Downey, California, United States) is an American private pilot and reporter for
Amelia Earhart theory. Billings claims that the serial numbers written on the map, , represent: These would be consistent with a Lockheed Electra 10E, such as that flown by Earhart, although they do not contain enough information to identify the wreck in question as NR16020. Pacific Wrecks, a website that documents World War II-era aircraft crash sites, notes that no Electra has been reported lost in or around Papua New Guinea. Gillespie wrote that the distance from Earhart's last known position to New Britain was impossible for the aircraft to fly, requiring more than 13 hours of flight when there were only