The plane is the centerpiece of the new Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum, which opened Friday in Atchison, Kansas. Amelia Earhart spent part of her childhood in Atchison, Kansas. Now her hometown is ...

A Lockheed Electra 10-E named "Muriel" (Earhart's sister) rests inside the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum in Atchison. The Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum in Atchison, Kansas, will feature the only ...

All of the exhibits in Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum are built out to meet Kansas, Missouri and National Curriculum Standards. “We have created an elementary school guide and a middle school ...

The daring pilot still holds a grip on our imaginations nearly a century later – and now, Earhart fans can bask in her globe-trotting history back on her native Kansas soil. The Amelia Earhart ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ATCHISON, Kan. — A brand new $17 ...

(WIBW) - An Atchison museum is in the running for a national honor. KAIR Radio reports that the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum, located at 16701 286th Road in Atchison, has been nominated for the ...

(courtesy photo/Purdue University Libraries via Amelia Earhart Hanger Museum) (CN) — In a small Kansas city on the banks of the Missouri River, it’s hard to escape the legacy of Amelia Earhart. In ...

Kansas aviation pioneer and advocate for women's equal rights Amelia Earhart will be honored this week with a bronze statue in Congress, an effort that has taken more than two decades to accomplish.

This year, the sculpture is of famous Kansan and aviation legend Amelia Earhart. Pratt, the Kansas State Fair butter sculptor, has been shaping solidified cream since the 1990s as a teenager.

Amelia Earhart had already established herself as an American icon when she vanished over the Pacific Ocean 87 years ago attempting to circumnavigate the globe at the height of her fame.

Amelia Earhart has been grounded in the U.S. Capitol. She’s locked down with bolts onto a Cottonwood Limestone base quarried in Kansas in a corner of National Statuary Hall next to Thomas Edison ...