Fred Noonan

Born

April 4, 1893

Died

June 20, 1938 (aged 45)

Known as

navigator, aircraft pilot

Frederick Joseph Noonan was an American flight navigator, sea captain and aviation pioneer, who first charted many commercial airline routes across the Pacific Ocean during the 1930s. As the flight navigator for famed aviator Amelia Earhart in their pioneering attempt at circumnavigating the globe, the two disappeared somewhere over the central Pacific Ocean on July 3, 1937.

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