But Amelia Earhart was not in it.
Ask Vance reveals that, just prior to her fateful flight in 1937, Ms. Earhart replaced her Lockheed Vega with larger aircraft. In August 1943, her former aircraft
crashed at Wilson Field south of Winchester Road in Memphis as the new owner was ferrying it across the country.
Blurry pictures taken right after the crash (such as the one here) are filed away in the Memphis Room at the main library.
The wreckage remained visible for years, joining a fleet of other demolished and dismantled aircraft that caught the eye of anyone driving past the cluster of hangars and dirt runways at the northeast corner of Ridgeway and Raines Road.
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