The rough, remote airstrip at Harbour Grace saw many successful and unsuccessful transatlantic flight attempts. Pilot Henry Brown and John Mears walked away from the wreck of Mears' Vega. Dog Tailwind ran off and was not found. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

Photo presumably taken at Roosevelt Field. Pilot Henry Brown, owner John Mears and dog Tailwind took off from Roosevelt Field on 1 August 1930 for their 'goodwill flight round the world' but crashed on take-off from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland two days later - see other photo. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic solo in May 1932. She took off in Harbour Grace and intended to reach Paris but ran into a storm and had to put her 'Little Red Bus' down in a pasture near Londonderry. Photo from: Derry Central Library

Stanavo was the aviation fuel brand of Standard Oil (Esso). This airframe was originally Vega 5 NC7440, c/n 20. It was rebuilt in September-October 1929 and the new c/n 118 was issued. 'Originally painted white, red lettering, then with eagle outline and later with full length eagle paint job, red on white.' When Jimmie Mattern acquired it in 1933 it was presumably in a dismantled state. It was refurbished using only a few parts of his crashed Vega NR869E (c/n 69), but Mattern wished to retain his old reg. He crashed the new NR869E in Siberia in June 1933. Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum

A gem that belonged to famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart, this Vega is on display in the Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight Gallery exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum. Calling it her "Little Red Bus", Earhart flew this aircraft non-stop across the Atlantic solo in 1932, becoming the first female pilot and second after Charles Lindbergh to accomplish the feat. In the same year, she set another record in this Vega by flying non-stop alone across the USA.

Lockheed Vega built in 1932 and flown solo over the Atlantic that year by Amelia Earhart, thus becoming the first woman to achieve that solo flight.

Photo part of the William Fisk Collection of the Alaskan Transportation and Industry Museum. NC162K crashed on August 2, 1944 at Kuskokwin River, Alaska. Photo from: Civil Aviation Historical Society, Melbourne, Australia

Painted orange-yellow with red trim, Shell's NC926Y was built in 1930, when Lockheed was a Detroit Aircraft company. It is seen here at the opening of Vancouver's airport on Sea Island with, left to right, Mayor Taylor, Shell chief pilot John Macready and BC Premier Tolmie. The Vega ended up in Lithuania. Photo by: Stuart Thomson / City of Vancouver Archives

Amelia Earhart flew solo across the Atlantic in this aircraft, and also solo coast-to-coast from Los Angeles, Ca to Newark, NJ. Both flights took place in 1932.