On May 22, 1934, Amelia Earhart was at the airport when she was presented with the keys to the city of Burlington. Renowned for her solo flights across the Atlantic and the continental US, Amelia Earhart's vision for the future of flying was not one of a courageous and able lone flyer. Instead, her wish was for flight to become a conventional means of travel for everyone. She used her celebrity status to promote this idea during her visit to Burlington in 1934. Arriving at the airport on a Central Vermont/Boston-Maine Airways Stinson Trimotor, a company she helped found and of which she was vice president, she was greeted by 2,000 people.