Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum
An aviation museum built around the world’s last Lockheed Electra 10-E, identical to the aircraft Earhart flew on her final journey.
Artwork inspired by C. A. Seward
Fourteen interactive exhibits connect Amelia Earhart’s Atchison childhood, record flights, navigation, engineering, public image, and final attempt to circle the globe. The aircraft Muriel gives the technical story real scale.
Distinguish between an identical model and Earhart’s actual missing airplane. Use the cockpit, wings, fuel capacity, communications, and navigation exhibits to understand both achievement and risk.
- Setting
- Atchison, Kansas
- Focus
- Lockheed Electra 10-E
- Allow
- 1½–3 hours
Quick guide
- Route question
- Lockheed Electra 10-E ↔ Interactive flight exhibits
- Final evidence
- Atchison connection
Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum: muriel and not the lost plane
- Muriel
- Walk around the surviving Lockheed Electra 10-E before using interactive stations, noting wing, cockpit, engines, and fuel space.
- Not the lost plane
- Keep the identical aircraft model distinct from Earhart’s missing Electra while using it to understand scale and engineering.
- Navigation
- Test what 1930s communications, weather information, and navigation demanded from a world-flight crew.
- Public image
- Compare record-setting, celebrity, sponsorship, and the unresolved final flight without letting mystery consume the career.
Good to know
Muriel is named for Earhart’s younger sister and is the only surviving Electra 10-E.
Notice these
- Lockheed Electra 10-E
- Interactive flight exhibits
- Atchison connection
- Aviation STEM