# Lockheed 10-E Electra NR16020

> The aircraft itself is the evidence every search looks for: its engines and structure carried serial numbers. The photographs below record how it looked…

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**ART** 0CYPN6P40Y78·Artifact · object

# Lockheed 10-E Electra NR16020

PhotographPublic domainFlown on the world flight from 17 March 1937; last heard 2 July 1937

[Cite][Download](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/d/ca1332ebb32d31fa68ad4c749662428f0202e38f3c18a5b90965fae1dda48e8c)

[![Lockheed 10-E Electra NR16020: photo](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/v/ca1332ebb32d31fa68ad4c749662428f0202e38f3c18a5b90965fae1dda48e8c/w800)](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/ca1332ebb32d31fa68ad4c749662428f0202e38f3c18a5b90965fae1dda48e8c.jpg)

Lockheed 10-E Electra NR16020: photo

[![Lockheed 10-E Electra NR16020: photo](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/v/ca1332ebb32d31fa68ad4c749662428f0202e38f3c18a5b90965fae1dda48e8c/w800)][![Lockheed 10-E Electra NR16020: picture](https://mysteriesdept.com/media/folio/amelia-earhart-a-electra-c0)][![Lockheed 10-E Electra NR16020: photo](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/v/fc74e1f731d2ed6135cfa68af1d9d8566b1098244f738030a9ce73de260e5d7b/w800)][![Lockheed 10-E Electra NR16020: photo](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/ba6d4656a5815e26c3608053dea72dd4cd8651e299a121e9aa51477bfc9a2e2b.jpg)][![Lockheed 10-E Electra NR16020: picture](https://mysteriesdept.com/media/folio/amelia-earhart-a-electra-c1)][![Lockheed 10-E Electra NR16020: picture](https://mysteriesdept.com/media/folio/amelia-earhart-a-electra-c2)]

The aircraft itself is the evidence every search looks for: its engines and structure carried serial numbers. The photographs below record how it looked in 1937, against which claimed wreckage (such as the 2-2-V-1 panel) is compared.

Smithsonian Institution (photographer not recorded), 1937. Public domain

## Copies 6

**Photo** Smithsonian Institution (photographer not recorded) · commons.wikimedia.org · 1937 · Public domain (per Commons; from NASA's Great Images in NASA collection)1 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amelia_Earhart_-_GPN-2002-000211.jpg)[Download](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/d/ca1332ebb32d31fa68ad4c749662428f0202e38f3c18a5b90965fae1dda48e8c)

**Picture** Smithsonian Institution · commons.wikimedia.org · Public domain (per Commons; from NASA's Great Images in NASA collection)1 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amelia_Earhart_-_GPN-2002-000211.jpg)

**Photo** Underwood & Underwood · commons.wikimedia.org · 1937-03 · Public domain (per Commons)1 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amelia_Earhart_standing_under_nose_of_her_Lockheed_Model_10-E_Electra.jpg)[Download](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/d/fc74e1f731d2ed6135cfa68af1d9d8566b1098244f738030a9ce73de260e5d7b)

**Photo** unknown (from Purdue University Libraries' Earhart papers) · commons.wikimedia.org · 1937-06-28 · Public domain (US, copyright not renewed, per Commons)1 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amelia_Earhart_in_Darwin_on_28_June_1937.jpg)[Download](https://mysteriesdept.com/files/d/ba6d4656a5815e26c3608053dea72dd4cd8651e299a121e9aa51477bfc9a2e2b)

**Picture** Underwood & Underwood · commons.wikimedia.org · Public domain (per Commons)1 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amelia_Earhart_standing_under_nose_of_her_Lockheed_Model_10-E_Electra.jpg)

**Picture** Unknown author · commons.wikimedia.org · Public domain (US, copyright not renewed, per Commons)1 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amelia_Earhart_in_Darwin_on_28_June_1937.jpg)

## Where it was made

[Howland Island](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CYPMFZJ2NCD/howland-island) · Island

## Sources 1

- [The Earhart Project: the Nikumaroro hypothesis and the evidence](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CYPMC2J1FFE/the-earhart-project-the-nikumaroro-hypothesis-and-the)_SRC_

## Cite it

```
Mysteries Department. (2026). Lockheed 10-E Electra NR16020 [Artifact ART0CYPN6P40Y78]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0CYPN6P40Y78
```

Key

**ART** 0CYPN6P40Y78

Kind

Object

Held by

lost (with Earhart and Noonan, 2 July 1937)

Dated

flown on the world flight from 17 March 1937; last heard 2 July 1937

Licence

Public domain (per Commons; from NASA's Great Images in NASA collection)

Place

[Howland Island](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CYPMFZJ2NCD/howland-island)

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[Disappearance of Amelia Earhart](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart)

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