Amelia Earhart was an American aviator who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Some of her major accomplishments included being the first woman to fly across the Atlantic in 1928, the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California in 1935, and the first woman to fly solo across the continental United States and back in 1928. However, she went missing in 1937 during an attempt to fly around the world at the equator and was declared dead in absentia in 1939.