to: Amelia Earhart (family name: Putnam-Earhart).US aviation pioneer and women's rights activist; on May 20/21; 1932 first woman to make a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic;Atchison (Kansas) 24. 7. 1897 - disappeared on July 2; 1937 over the Pacific and subsequently died; possibly on the Pacific island of Nikumaroro (former name Gardner Island).- Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega 5B. -(With this aircraft; on May 20/21; 1932; Earhart was the first woman to make a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic; and on August 24/25; 1932; the first woman to make a nonstop transcontinental solo flight from Los Angeles to Newark).Photo; 2016 (Eric Long; Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum).Inv.: A19670093000Washington; Nat. Air and Space Museum.