Amelia Earhart Airplane - Westmont Airport - 1929

Thanks to reader Bob C. for today's very interesting pictures. First up, you are looking at the old Westmont Airport landing field that is now part of Sunnehanna. The airfield is circled. The road in the center - Goucher Street\top of D Street. The barn next to the airfield is still there (Sivi TV). The old Stutzman School is also still around. Interesting to see most of Westmont as farmland and what is now part of Stackhouse Park clear cut.

 A nice close up of the landing strip.

And as luck would have on the AP Wire this morning: Lab scans bones that may belong to Amelia Earhart

(AP) –

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Three bone fragments found on a South Pacific island could help prove that famed aviator Amelia Earhart died as a castaway after failing in her quest to circumnavigate the globe.
Researchers told The Associated Press that the University of Oklahoma hopes to extract DNA from bones found by a Delaware group dedicated to the recovery of the historic aircraft. The fragments were recovered earlier this year on an uninhabited island about 1,800 miles south of Hawaii.
Earhart and her navigator were nearing the end of their round-the-world trip 73 years ago when they vanished in the South Pacific.
Researchers say crews found other items near the bone fragments, which could also be from a turtle. The university says it doesn't know when the DNA tests will be completed.

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