A famous Kansas aviator is the focus of a new movie expected out next month.Academy Award-winning actress Hilary Swank plays the role of Amelia Earhart, the aviation pioneer from Atchison.KMBC's ...

Purdue University, which helped fund her historic 1937 flight, said it will send a team to a remote island in the South ...

Purdue University - where Earhart served as a faculty member - announced it will investigate a “visual anomaly” spotted in ...

On January 12, 1935, famed aviator Amelia Earhart landed at Oakland Municipal Airport in Oakland, California, after an ...

Amelia Earhart had already established herself as an American icon when she vanished over the Pacific in 1937 — and promising new sonar images of what may be her plane has interest in her ...

Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart departed on a journey to become the first pilot to successfully fly solo from Hawaii to mainland United States on this day in history, Jan. 11, 1935. The daring ...

Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1937 on a doomed voyage around the world. But she’s still a big presence in Atchison, Kansas, where she was born and lived for about a decade with ...