Amelia Earhart Putnam with associates preparing for her round-the-world flight, at Oakland Naval Air Station, California. Her Lockheed Electra aircraft (tail number: NR 16020) taxis slowly in front of Navy hangar. Small puddles of rainwater on the ramp. Paul Mantz ducks down into cockpit of the parked airplane and then reappears again. Engines of the Lockheed Electra are started and it taxis under guidance of ground crewmen. Amelia Earhart Putnam standing in cockpit of her airplane talking with Paul Mantz, as he tightens dzuz fastener on an access panel in fuselage. Earhart, Mantz and George Putnam huddle beside the airplane.
Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra parked, with engines running, on wet ramp in front of hangar at U.S. Naval Air Station in Oakland California. In change of scene, Amelia Earhart climbs from cockpit of the parked airplane and, with helping hand, from Mechanic Bo McKneely, jumps from the wing to the ground. (McKneely is on top of the fuselage, refueling the airplane.) Earhart talks with her husband, George P. Putnam.
Achievements of American women in 1935. Eleanor Holm Jarrett in a Miami swim meet. She performs backstroke and breaks her own record. A close up of Jarrett. Next segment: Amelia Earhart conquers the Pacific in a historic flight from Hawaii to Oakland California. Earhart emerges from cockpit. People crowd around the plane. A close up of Amelia Earhart receiving flowers from crowd and later posing for photographers. From a December 14, 1959 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
Large crowd watches from fenced area at U.S. Naval Air Station, Oakland, California, waiting to catch a glimpse of Amelia Earhart departing on her round-the-world flight. . Inside hanger number 3, Amelia Earhart Putnam, husband George Putnam, Fred Noonan, Paul Mantz, and Harry Manning, complete loading of the Lockheed Electra airplane, for the flight.
Women stand in a queue outside at a Fingerprint Service Station outside a building in the United States. Famous aviator Amelia Earhart is at the head of the line. A uniformed police officer takes her fingerprints. He places her fingers on a fingerprint ink pad and then takes the prints on a strip. Close up of Amelia Earhart smiling after giving her fingerprints.
An air-sea search for aviator Amelia Earhart Putnam, navigator Fred Noonan and their flying laboratory in the South Pacific. The crew is lost in a round-the-world flight attempt. Amelia Earhart Putnam and Fred Noonan in front of their aircraft. They board the Electra aircraft and check instruments. The aircraft taxis and takes off from a runway. A United States aircraft carrier underway at sea and a fleet of aircraft in flight searching for the missing crew.