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Lockheed Vega

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Lockheed Vega

Gallery 208

This bright red Lockheed Vega 5B was flown by Amelia Earhart on two history-making flights in 1932: the first solo flight by a woman across the Atlantic Ocean and the first solo flight by a woman across the United States.

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