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And Ann Pellegreno was home. When she landed in Oakland, Calif. last Friday she had flown 28,000 miles around the world commemorating the Amelia Earhart Commemorative Flight. But when she landed at the Ypsilanti area airport, the Saline housewife and ex-school teacher was home.
2 de jul. de 2019 · Earthrounder and author Ann Holtgren Pellegreno — who recreated Amelia Earhart’s last flight in 1967 — recently received the FAA Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award.. To be eligible for the award, nominees must be a U.S. citizen, hold a U.S. Civil Aviation Authority or FAA pilot certificate, document at least 50 years of flying experience, and have three letters of recommendation from ...
Mrs. Ann Pellegreno (center) visits with her mother, Mrs. Clifford Holtgren (left), and her grandmother, Mrs. Bessie Dearing, after arriving at Willow Run yesterday. Mrs. Pellegreno, holding a stuffed tiger presented to her before the flight by students at the former Illinois high school, flew 28,000 miles around the world as leader of the "Amelia Earhart Commemorative Flight."
28 de sept. de 2022 · EDITOR’S NOTE: Ann Dearing Holtgren Pellegreno is a professional musician, teacher, author, lecturer, and farmer. In 1967, Pellegreno and a crew of three, successfully flew a twin-engine Lockheed 10 Electra, similar to the aircraft flown by Amelia Earhart to complete a world flight that closely mirrored fateful Earhart’s flight plan in 1937.
Ann Pellegreno's decision to retrace Earhart's round-the-world flight route in a Lockheed Electra can be traced to the encouragement of her airplane mechanic, Lee Koepke, in 1962. Koepke owned a twin-engine Lockheed Electra 10A that he was restoring at the time, a sistership to that flown by Amelia Earhart on her fateful world flight in 1937.
Ann Dearing Holtgren Pellegreno (born 1937 in Chicago, Illinois) is a professional musician, teacher, author, lecturer, and farmer. In 1967, Pellegreno and a crew of three successfully flew a similar aircraft (a Lockheed 10A Electra) to complete a world flight that closely mirrored Amelia Earhart's flight plan in 1937. On the 30th anniversary of Earhart's disappearance, Pellegreno dropped a ...
In 1937 Amelia Earhart was flying a Lockheed 10E on a round-the-world flight when she was lost over the Pacific Ocean. The Museum aircraft was flown around the world by Ann Pellegreno between June 9 and July 9, 1967, to commemorate Earhart’s last flight. Current Location: Airlines Exhibition, Canada Aviation and Space Museum. Provenance:
