Great Lakes Aviation Detectives

10/13/2026

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10/10/2026

✈️ Earhart expedition update! ✈️

🛥️ Aboard the Marin Mainiku, the Taraia Object expedition team is reporting mostly calm seas and freshly caught tuna. They are currently approaching their halfway point as they continue their voyage across the vast South Pacific toward Nikumaroro.

Read more about their progress, the Taraia Object expedition and the years of research behind the search for Amelia Earhart. ⬇️ https://purdue.university/4jfiFXV

10/08/2026

During her round-the-world flight in 1937, Amelia Earhart’s last confirmed transmission placed her on a navigational line running northwest to southeast across the Pacific. Nearly 90 years after she disappeared, a new expedition is heading to Nikumaroro, an island that lies along that line and has long figured in theories about her fate. If all goes as planned, researchers will investigate an object in the island’s lagoon that some believe could be Earhart’s plane, a Lockheed Electra, though others remain skeptical.

Uncover more details on the upcoming expedition: https://on.natgeo.com/6NvK9o

10/08/2026

Could the aviator's lost Lockheed Electra be submerged on a tropical island? A group of adventurers is about to find out.