The official search, named the "Taraia Object Expedition," will begin on Nov. 5, when a field team visits the island ...

Then residing in Massachusetts, Earhart jumped at the opportunity to be the first woman to partake in a transatlantic flight.

PRF funded the "flying laboratory" Lockheed Electra 10E airplane through the Amelia Earhart Fund for Aeronautical Research.

An expedition to a remote and tiny island this fall will attempt to locate Amelia Earhart's plane​ in the Pacific Ocean.