Amelia Rose Earhart

Amelia Rose Earhart (born 1983) is an American pilot and news anchor, based in Denver, Colorado.

Earhart was born on January 18, 1983, in Downey, California. She is a descendant of noted American aviator, Amelia Mary Earhart.

In the years 2003-2005, Earhart studied English Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.  In 2014, she earned a bachelor’s degree in Meteorology, Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, from the Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi.

Earhart took her first flying lesson on June 2, 2004, and obtained her private pilot certificate in a Cessna 172. In 2012, she recreated her namesake's transcontinental flight from Oakland, California to Miami, Florida in a Cirrus SR22, as a completion of her instrument training hours.


In 2013 Earhart started the Fly With Amelia Foundation, which provides aviation scholarships to young women, educational aviation opportunities to the Denver community. The same year in July, she received the Amelia Earhart Pioneering Achievement Award by the Atchison, Kansas Chamber of Commerce.

Earhart and her co-pilot, Shane Jordan, in partnership with Denver's Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, completed a circumnavigation of the globe in a single-engine airplane. They began the flight on June 26, 2014, departing Oakland, California at 8:19 am Pacific Standard Time in a single engine Pilatus PC-12 NG. They made 17 stops during the 24,300 nautical-mile trip over 108 flying hours, landing back in Oakland without incident on July 11, 2014. They flew  across the US, then south into the Caribbean, northeast Brazil, the South Atlantic Ocean, then the African continent, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Islands, and the Pacific Ocean before returning to California.

Earhart currently resides in Denver, Colorado, and is currently a reporter for NBC affiliate KUSA-TV, where she reports traffic and breaking news on 9NEWS at 5 a.m.