DALLAS – Today in Aviation, American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart took delivery of her Lockheed Electra 10E Special (NR16020) in 1936.
The aircraft, handed over on Earhart’s 39th birthday, would be used on her ill-fated round-the-world flight in 1937.
Earhart had previously joined Purdue University as a technical advisor to its Department of Aeronautics and a career counselor. The Purdue Research Foundation would subsequently stump up the US$80,000 to buy the aircraft.
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Source:: “Airways Magazine”