Amelia Earhart relocated from California to the Boston area in 1925 and often flew from what was then Dennison Airport in Quincy.
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Seventy-five years after her Lockheed Electra vanished over the Pacific Ocean, Amelia Earhart, the aviation pioneer and pop culture icon, is back in the news. A $2.2 million high-tech search aiming locate the plane’s remains, and thus solve one of the 20th century’s most enduring mysteries, is underway. We explore the New England connection.
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