Updated: October 5, 2006

viation pioneer Amelia Earhart is one of 151 aviators or groups of aviators honored at the Mission Inn. On February 3, 1936, Earhart attended the ceremony at the hotel when copper wings with her etched initials were affixed to the Famous Fliers' Wall. In 1937, Earhart and navigators Fred J. Noonan and Harry Manning attempted to circumnavigate the globe in a Lockheed Electra twin-engine aircraft. On March 20, 1937, their plane crashed on takeoff from the Honolulu airport. The three were headed for Howland Island in the Pacific on an east-to-west flight plan. The plane was sent back for repairs to Lockheed’s manufacturing facility in Burbank, California. This piece of aluminum and a Lunkenheimer-made gas strainer (also in the Mission Inn collections) are from the Lockheed Electra.

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