See the displays of memorabilia from the Amelia Earhart and Jerrie Cobb Collections currently at the Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, OK. June 1, 1937 It has been 80 years since Amelia Earhart’s around the world attempt. The flight pushed her and her airplane to the limits. Exhausted, a lack of proper radio equipment, and weather prevented her from location tiny Howland Island in the Pacific. She was last heard from on July 2. The search for her was the largest ever made for a single lost plane. Four thousand men manning ten ships and sixty-five airplanes searched 250,000 square miles of the Pacific - the size of Texas for 16 days. There are many theories about her disappearance, but the most likely is that the plane got off course and ran out of gas. Despite not completing her around the world flight, Earhart should be remembered for her courage, fortitude, and ambition to make her mark on history, and her inspiration to countless women, both during her lifetime and today.