Amelia Earhart, 1928, (1935). American aviation pioneer and author Amelia Earhart (born 1897; disappeared 2 July 1937), was the first woman to to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Her first transatlantic flight was in 1928 when she accompanied Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon. Earhart did not pilot the aircraft but kept the flight log. In 1932 she flew solo from Newfoundland, Canada, to Culmore in Northern Ireland, in a time of 14 hours and 56 minutes. From "The Silver Jubilee Book - The Story of 25 Eventful Years in Pictures". [Odhams Press Ltd., London, 1935]