Amelia Earhart and husband George Palmer Putnam are photographed in their New York Hotel on Feb. 11, 1931. The couple was married in Putnam's home in Connecticut. Earhart, the first woman passenger to fly across the Atlantic in 1928, is the vice-president of Luddington Airlines, Inc. Putnam is the former treasurer of his grandfather's book-publishing firm G. P. Putnam and Sons, 1919-1930. (AP Photo)

Photo shows Mrs. Louise McPhetridge Thaden of Pittsburgh, Pa., taken after she had landed at Muskogee, Oklahoma, on Jan. 6, 1930 to visit friends recently. She won the Women???s Air Derby last year, and says she will try to regain her speed record broken not long ago by Amelia Earhart. Mrs. Thaden, who at various times has held the women???s altitude, speed and endurance records, is a former student of the University of Arkansas. (AP Photo)

Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, poses with her co pilots Wilmer Stultz, left, and Louis Gordon, right at the Union Station, where they were given a warm welcome by many admirers, July 19, 1928, Chicago, Ill. (AP Photo)

American aviatrix Amelia Earhart poses with flowers as she arrives in Southampton, England, after her transatlantic flight on the

File photo of Amelia Earhart when she graduated from Ogontz School in Philadelphia in 1918. (AP Photo)