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Amelia Earhart + pizza-inspired art + a snazzy new checkpoint

06/04/25

Summer reading: The Aviator and the Showman If you have a subscription to The New Yorker or can somehow click your way through to access it, be sure to read this revealing and heartstopping story titled: Amelia Earhart’s Reckless Final Flights, by Lauri Gwen Shapiro. It’s taken from Shapiro’s soon-to-be-published book The Aviator and the →

Airport Terminals

Long Beach Airport Closes its Historic Terminal. Temporarily

02/21/23

Over the past week, the Stuck at the Airport team has shared news of how Kansas City decided to replace an old terminal with a brand new one at Kansas City International Airport (MCI). And of a new museum in Atchison, Kansas dedicated to iconic aviator Amelia Earhart. Today we share some news about Long →

Airport Terminals

Museum Monday: Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum

02/20/23

Famed aviator Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24, 1897, and lived there until 1908, when her family moved to Des Moines. Today Atchison honors its most famous hometown hero with a wide variety of attractions. Those include the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum, a life-size statue of Earhart in the arboretum known →

Airports celebrate Amelia Earhart’s Birthday

07/25/21

July 24th was Amelia Earhart’s birthday and over the weekend many airports marked the day with some great images and historical tidbits. Here’s a sampling. →

Aviation history

Amelia Earhart at Union Club Hotel in Indiana

03/04/21

Amelia Earhart installation at the Union Club Hotel at Purdue University →

Hotels

Museum Monday: Amelia Earhart’s Goggles

01/31/21

Here’s proof that you never know when you’ll come across something cool in an unexpected place. Case in point: the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. The sprawling museum is not just the largest children’s museum in the world. It is also home to more than 130,000 artifacts, many of them true treasures. One example: these aviator →

Aviation history

Chill like Amelia Earhart

04/06/20

It’s been a tough few weeks for a lot of us. And there are more tough weeks on the way. We’re being told to stay home, keep our distance from others and stay away from airports and airplanes. Yet, we’re being encouraged to stay busy. So today we’re sharing two great “be chill” photos we →

Aviation history

Amelia Earhart’s flight jacket – in Wyoming

06/23/15

I’m putting finishing touches on a presentation I’ll be making at the Washington Museum Association conference this week about objects museums have that they rarely or never show to the public. One of the treasures I’ll be featuring is Amelia Earhart’s flight jacket. Not the one she was wearing on that last flight, of course, →

Aviation history

Finding Amelia Earhart – in Cleveland

04/17/15

I had the great pleasure of visiting the International Women’s Air & Space Museum this week for a tour and a look inside a few storage boxes, including one holding artifacts relating to Amelia Earhart. Here are a few snaps from the visit: →

Helsinki Airport art cinema & Earhart’s plane twin

10/04/13

Helsinki Airport just opened a relaxation area. Now there’s yet another cool amenity at that airport: an art cinema. For the next six month’s the airport’s art gallery at gate 37 will be hosting an Art Cinema and showing the work of Finnish media artists. First up: films about the Finnish people’s relationship with →

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