From 5,000 feet above, the plant looked like a complete California suburb. The only giveaway, Christen said, was that he ...

Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega 5B Key Accomplishment(s) First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Atlantic Brief Description Amelia Earhart set two of her many aviation records in this bright red Lockheed 5B ...

Lockheed Vega Winnie Mae Key Accomplishment(s) First Solo Flight Around the World Brief Description Famed aviator Wiley Post set records and pioneered aviation technologies flying this Lockheed 5C ...

Magoffin’s Vega is particularly rare in that it’s one of nine built by the Detroit Aircraft Corporation as part of the DL-1 series (for “Detroit Lockheed”). The Detroit-built Vega had ...

The Vega is one of the few aircraft that defined the "golden age of flight" in America in the 1920s and '30s. The Vega was a six-passenger monoplane built by the Lockheed company starting in 1927.

Short, blond, athletic-looking, 21-year-old Burton Griffin works by night in the stock room of Vega's Burbank (Calif.) plant, goes to bed with the dawn. One morning last week young Griffin ...

Lockheed's engineering genius didn’t start with Kelly Johnson, says John Magoffin, standing by his Lockheed Vega last July at the Experimental Aircraft Association annual fly-in.

Pictures: Amelia Earhart's Lockheed 5B Vega plane. Amelia Earhart's Lockheed 5B plane is on display at the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.

On this day in history, Aug. 24, 1932, Amelia Earhart flew solo across the U.S. nonstop — becoming the first woman to do so. Here are details about her remarkable flight and its aftermath.