Aviator Amelia Earhart stands with members of her flight team in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1937. From left are Paul Mantz, technical adviser, Earhart, navigators Harry Manning and Fred Noonan. (AP Photo)

American aviator Amelia Earhart, left, and her navigator, Fred Noonan, right, pose beside their plane at Lae, New Guinea in 1937. This photo, taken with a gold miner named Jacobs, shows them just before they took off in a flight to Howland Island during which they disappeared somewhere in the Pacific on July 2. (AP Photo)

Amelia Earhart, noted flier, is shown in the cockpit of her ??sflying laboratory,??? in which she reached Floyd Bennett field, Aug. 31, 1936. This photo was made just after she landed on a flight from the east coast, preparatory to taking part in the Bendix race from New York to Los Angeles on Sept. 4, 1936 as part of the National Air Races. (AP Photo)

Amelia Earhart, noted fier, inspected the Twin-Engined Lockheed Electra Monoplane which is being built for her use in future long distance flights at the plant, May 26, 1936, Burbank, Calif. The ship will carry 1200 gallons of gasoline and have a cruising range of more than 4500 miles. Photo shows Miss Earhart in plane looking over blueprints. (AP Photo)

Chairman Royal S. Copeland, D-NY, of the Senate Commerce Committee, left, is shown as he listens to Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly the Atlantic alone, tell the Senate Air Safety Committee there was ??sno group more loyal, interested and conscientious??? than the Bureau of Air Commerce, May 1, 1936, Washington, D.C. (AP Photo)

American aviatrix Amelia Earhart is welcomed with a string of leis around her neck shortly after landing in Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. territory, after a speedy flight from Oakland, Ca., on March 18, 1936. Earhart and her crew are on the first leg of their round-the-world flight from Oakland to Howland Island. (AP Photo)

Female aviator, Laura Ingalls, walks away from her plane at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, after beating the west-east transcontinental flight mark for woman fliers on Sept. 12, 1935. Ingalls flew from Los Angeles in the official time of 13 hours, 34 minutes and five seconds compared to Amelia Earhart's previous record of 17 Hours, seven minutes and 30 seconds.(AP Photo/Tony Camerano)

American aviatrix Amelia Earhart poses before boarding a TWA airplane at Newark Airport, N.J., May 22, 1935. Earhart is en route to Chicago, Ill., to address the Chicago Women's Club. (AP Photo)

Amelia Earhart poses with her husband George P. Putnam after completing her non-stop flight from Mexico City, a 2100-mile journey in 14 hours and 20 minutes, May 8, 1935, Newark, N.J. (AP Photo)

Amelia Earhart climbs out of her plane at Oakland Airport after completing her 18 hour, 2400 mile flight from Honolulu on Jan. 14, 1935. (AP Photo)

Aviator Amelia Earhart visits her mother, Amy Otis Earhart, at home in Hollywood, Calif., on Jan. 14, 1935. (AP Photo)

Amelia Earhart, Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific flyer, left, is shown above as she reached Los Angeles, California, Jan. 13, 1935. She had flown from San Francisco, and the stop in Los Angeles was made to break a trip to Washington. Thousands of persons waited at the field for the woman flyer who made the first Hawaii to the U.S. (AP Photo)

American aviatrix Amelia Earhart climbs from the cockpit of her plane at Los Angeles, Ca., Jan. 13, 1935 after a flight from Oakland to visit her mother. It is the plane she had flown into Oakland the day before from the Hawaiian Islands, becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean. (AP Photo)

Amelia Earhart Putnam and her husband, George Palmer Putnam, as they were greeted at Honolulu by little Miss Dorothy Leslie, nine, who is shown standing on the wheel of Miss Earhart's plane on the deck of the S.S Lurline. (AP Photo)

Amelia Earhart, Trans-Atlantic flier, is shown when she told the senate post office committee she would like to see permanent air mail legislation enacted speedily without restrictions that would damage the aviation industry, March 20, 1934, Washington, D.C. (AP Photo)

Three trans-Atlantic flyers were the guests of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, right, and Eleanor Roosevelt at the Roosevelt estate when the Flying Mollisons and Amelia Earhart, second from left, were received, July 30, 1933, Hyde Park, N.Y. The group was photographed on the lawn. From Left to Right are Mrs. Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Jim Mollison, and the President. (AP Photo)

Amelia Earhart Putnam, left, and Ruth Nichols both well known flyers, photographed at the national air races in Los Angeles, on July 4, 1933. Although both of them were entrants in the transcontinental speed race, neither won after having failed to arrive in the time limit. (AP Photo)

Thousands of people gather to welcome aviator Amelia Earhart Putnam at the Battery in New York City on June 20, 1933. The crowd cheered Earhart, who flew her plane from Newfoundland to Ireland in 15 hours one month ago. (AP Photo)

Aviator Amelia Earhart Putnam, her husband, George Walter Putnam, and his son, David B. Putnam, center, dine at a hotel in Providence, R.I., on Nov. 5, 1932. The couple is here to see David play football with the Brown Freshman team against Columbia. (AP Photo)

Amelia Earhart poses in her Lockheed Vega on plane Aug. 24, 1932 in Los Angeles, Calif. She was the first woman to make a transatlantic flight. (AP Photo)