Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum

Lockheed built only 14 Electra 10-Es, and this one came off the line in 1935. It flew first for Pan American in South America, then in the 1950s carried commuters between Boston, Cape Cod and New York City. From 1970 skydivers jumped from it. It ended up parked outdoors at a Florida museum, and when that museum closed in the mid-1980s the plane was judged good only for scrap.

Grace McGuire, a California pilot and mechanic, took it on and spent some thirty years restoring it to match the Electra Earhart flew on her last flight, meaning to fly Earhart's planned route around the world herself. Her health ended the plan. She named the plane Muriel, for Earhart's younger sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey. Ladd and Karen Seaberg of Atchison formed a foundation to bring Muriel to the town where Earhart was born, and the plane arrived on August 8, 2016.

The foundation put up a 17,000-square-foot hangar in 2019 and opened the museum in 2023 after a $17 million campaign. Muriel sits at the center of fourteen interactive exhibits that follow Earhart from her Atchison girlhood to her fame as the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, and a virtual-reality flight puts visitors in the cockpit of her Lockheed Vega for that 1932 crossing. Out front stands a twin of the bronze Earhart statue the foundation placed in National Statuary Hall in 2022. The house where she was born, run separately by the Ninety-Nines, is about ten minutes away.