Amelia Earhart and her navigator flew a Lockheed Electra 10-E and may have been discovered in the lagoon of a pacific island.

Discover the history of the Lockheed Vega, which made its first flight on July 4, 1927, and became a record-setting aircraft ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Vega 5B, 1932. On May 20 - 21, 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman—and the second person after Charles Lindbergh—to fly nonstop and solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

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.

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.