Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra at Takeoff
(Original Caption) This photo shows the giant Lockheed Electra, Amelia Earhart's "Flying Laboratory," as the ship took off from Oakland Airport at Alameda, California, on the first leg of her proposed world spanning flight. Miss Earhart landed at Honolulu, Hawaii on March 19, 1937, in the fastest crossing ever made of the span of the Pacific.

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March 01, 1937
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