The first woman to fly the Atlantic alone, Miss Amelia Earhart and her plane at Culmore, near Londonderry, where she was forced to land.28th May 1932. Earhart, Amelia Mary US aviator; as passenger, became 1st woman to fly across Atlantic Ocean 1928; vice-president of Luddington Airlines, Inc. 1930-1931; made 1st female solo trans-Atlantic airplane flight 1932, flying from Newfoundland to Wales; made 1st solo flight from Honolulu to US mainland 1935; made 1st solo flight from Mexico City to New York City 1935; began attempt at around-the-world airplane flight 1937, but disappeared near Howland Island in Pacific Ocean; 2nd wife of George Putnam 1931 _1897-1937?