A view of the crowd surrounding Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam and her plane immediately after the transatlantic flier landed at the Newark, N.J. Airport to establish a new women???s transcontinental flight record, July 13, 1932. Mrs. Putnam bettered the previous mark held by Miss Ruth Nichols, by almost 10 hours. (AP Photo)

Amelia Earhart, the Trans-Atlantic flyer, and her Stepson, Dave Putman, photographed on the beach on July 9, 1932 at Los Angeles, California, a short time after their arrival there by plane recently from New York. Miss Earhart??? husband accompanied them on the flight. (AP Photo)

Amelia Earhart, right, is shown with her stepson David Binney Putnam before take off in Newark, N.J., July 1, 1932. Earhart, accompanied by husband and stepson, is flying nonstop to San Francisco. (AP Photo)

American aviatrix Amelia Earhart is shown on June 30, 1932 at an unknown location. Earhart, 34, became the first woman to fly solo in a nonstop flight across the Atlantic on May 21. (AP Photo)

American aircraft pilot Amelia Earhart receives the National Geographic Medal by U.S. President Herbert Hoover, in honor of her transatlantic flight, on June 21, 1932, at the White House lawn in Washington, D.C. Standing on the left is Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, President of the National Geographic Society, on the right is first lady Lou Henry Hoover watching the scene. (AP Photo)

View shows part of thousands who assembled at New York's City Hall June 20, 1932 to join in welcome accorded Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam, after her record trans-Atlantic solo flight. In center are official cars entering the City Hall Plaza where the flier was welcomed by Mayor James. J. Walker. (AP Photo)

American aviatrix Amelia Earhart Putnam, the first woman to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic, is shown with her husband, George Putnam, aboard the city boat Riverside as they return to New York City on June 20, 1932. The boat transferred them from the liner Ile de France at quarantine. (AP Photo)

Amelia Earhart, honored by France with the Legion of Honor on June 13, 1932. (AP Photo)

American aviatrix Amelia Earhart, holding flowers, receives a welcome from Gen. Italo Balbo, Italian air minister, at the Littoric Airport in Rome, Italy, on June 8, 1932. From left to right are, Alice W. Garrett, wife of the American ambassador to Italy; Gen. Balbo; Earhart; and Ambassador John W. Garrett. Earhart and her husband are visiting as guests of Italy. (AP Photo)

American flier Amelia Earhart, in the garden of the American Embassy, in London, on May 24, 1932, where she is staying. (AP Photo)

A crowd cheers for aviatrix Amelia Earhart as she boards her single-engine Lockheed Vega airplane in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, for the trip back to London on May 22, 1932. Earhart became the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean when she finished her 2,026 mile journey on May 21, 1932 in under 15 hours after departing from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. Earhart vanished mysteriously over the Pacific during her attempted round-the-world flight in 1937. (AP Photo)

A crowd cheers for aviatrix Amelia Earhart as she boards her single-engine Lockheed Vega airplane in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, for the trip back to London on May 22, 1932. Earhart became the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean when she finished her 2,026 mile journey on May 21, 1932 in under 15 hours after departing from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. Earhart vanished mysteriously over the Pacific during her attempted round-the-world flight in 1937. (AP Photo)

Noted Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, is shown standing beside the red and gold monoplane which she brought down to become the first women to ever complete a solo flight across the Atlantic, May 21, 1932, Londonderry, Ireland. (AP Photo)

People surround Amelia Earhart's single-engine Lockheed Vega plane after she landed in an open field near Londonderry, northern Ireland, on May 21, 1932. Earhart began her solo nonstop transatlantic flight on May 20 from Newfoundland, Canada. (AP Photo)

Transatlantic pilots Amelia Earhart Putnam, right, and Bernt Balchen pose at Teterboro Airport in Hasbrouck Heights, N.J., May 1932. They will fly to Newfoundland in the plane in background, May 19. (AP Photo)

PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS (FILES)An undated picture taken in the 1930' s shows American female aviator Amelia Earhart at the controls of her plane. An aviation museum in the US state of Ohio that believed it was displaying a hair sample from famed flyer Amelia Earhart made an unfortunate discovery, after DNA analysis revealed it to be a piece of thread reported on October 21, 2009. "In a disappointing turn of events," as Cleveland's International Women's Air and Space Museum described it in a statement, the lock of "hair" in their possession since 1986 was revealed as thread only after they put it on display this year. Earhart, one of the greatest female pilots in the history of US aviation, disappeared over the Pacific in 1937 at the age of 60 while attempting a solo flight around the world. The thread remains on display at the museum as part of an Earhart exhibition that is on show until November 15, 2009. AFP PHOTO/FILES

Undated picture taken in the 30' s of American female aviator Amelia Earhart looking trough the cockpit window of her plane. Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly the Atlantic as a passenger, in 1928, and followed this by a solo flight in 1932. In 1935 she flew solo from Hawa? to Califofrnia. In 1937, with Fred Noonan, they set out to fly round the world, but their plane was lost over the Pacific, 02 July.

As the first woman to be honored with the award, Amelia Earhart Putnam receives the Distinguished Flying Cross from U.S. Vice President Charles Curtis, left, in Los Angeles, Calif., on July 29, 1931. Governor James Rolph of California is on the right. (AP Photo)

American aircraft pilot Amelia Earhart is assisted by her husband, George Palmer Putnam, as she climbs out of the cockpit of her autogiro after completing a transcontinental flight to the West Coast and back, at the Metropolitan Airport in Newark, N.J., on June 22, 1931. (AP Photo)

Aviator Amelia Earhart lifts herself from the cockpit of her airplane after completing a transcontinental flight in Oakland, Calif., on June 6, 1931. (AP Photo)