Amelia Earhart-museo avautuu ensi vuonna

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Amelia Earhartista ei ole lukuisista etsintäyrityksistä huolimatta löytynyt jälkeäkään, mutta hänen muistolleen ollaan rakentamassa museota nimeltä Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum, joka tulee Amelian synnyinkaupungin Atchisonin kentän viereen. Kenttä on jo valmiiksi nimetty Amelia Earhart Memorial Airportiksi.

Projektia ovat tukemassa mm. Garmin, FedEx ja Lockheed Martin. Museoon tulee ainakin Amelian konetta vastaava Lockheed Electra.

10 miljoonaa dollaria budjetoiduista 15 miljoonasta on koossa, joten lisää rahaa tarvitaan, kuten aina.

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Construction is set to begin on a commemorative museum at the Amelia Earhart Memorial Airport (K59) in Atchison, Kansas. The airport in Earhart’s birthplace city will be the site of the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum, which “will blend STEM education and historical storytelling to honor Earhart’s pioneering legacy while inspiring the next generation of aviation and aerospace pioneers in the pursuit of flight.”

The centerpiece display is the last surviving example of a Lockheed Electra 10-E, named Muriel. Named after Earhart’s younger sister, the radial-engine piston twin is identical to the plane Earhart flew on her infamous attempt to fly around the world in July 1937.

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/garmin-fedex-lockmart-help-fund-museum-honoring-amelia-earhart/

Museon omat sivut: https://ameliaearharthangarmuseum.org/

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Earhart-museon avajaiset ovat uutisen mukaan huhtikuun 14. päivänä 2023.

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The grand opening of the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum is slated for Friday, April 14, 2023, at Amelia Earhart Memorial Airport (K59) in Atchison, Kansas. 

Among the exhibits on display will be a Lockheed Electra 10-E, the same model of aircraft Earhart was flying on her last flight. According to museum officials, the aircraft, named Muriel, after Earhart’s sister, is the last remaining Lockheed 10-E.

Other exhibits include a full-scale replica of the cockpit of Muriel so that visitors can enter to get a better idea of what it was like to be inside the aircraft described as Earhart’s flying laboratory.

https://www.flyingmag.com/new-earhart-museum-to-open-this-spring/