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Earhart still flys high

DALLAS – The cap worn by celebrated aviator Amelia Earhart during her famous first flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928 sold for $825,000 in a late February event at Heritage Auctions.

A young man found the cap on the ground after Earhart participated in the National Air Races in Cleveland in August 1929 and gifted

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