1928: First Woman to Fly Across the Atlantic as a Passenger
Earhart rose to fame setting a first not as a pilot, but as a passenger. She was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic as a passenger, in a flight piloted by Wilmer Stultz and Lou Gordon from Newfoundland to Wales.
She had been promised a chance to fly the plane over the Atlantic, but the men flew the whole way. Earhart did fly the plane on the final hop from Wales to England.