{"id":1246799,"date":"2026-05-26T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=1246799"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:34:48","slug":"amelia-earhart-statue-stolen-restored-harbour-grace-newfoundland-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/amelia-earhart-statue-stolen-restored-harbour-grace-newfoundland-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolen for Two Years: Amelia Earhart&#8217;s Statue Returns to Harbour Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n\n<p>The bronze statue of Amelia Earhart that stood for forty years at the edge of the airfield at Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, vanished one cold December night in 2023. Police investigated. The town held a vigil. Aviation enthusiasts on both sides of the Atlantic offered rewards. Then, for two long years, nothing.<\/p>\n\n<p>This week &mdash; on the 94th anniversary of Earhart&rsquo;s solo transatlantic flight &mdash; the statue came home. Repaired, repainted, reinstalled. A small, quiet event in a town of 2,000 people, and one of the more emotionally satisfying stories aviation has produced this year.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f0f0f0;border-radius:8px;padding:20px 24px;margin:24px 0;font-size:15px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 12px;font-weight:700;color:#333;font-size:17px\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px;line-height:1.7\"><li><strong>Subject:<\/strong> Bronze statue of Amelia Earhart at Harbour Grace, Newfoundland<\/li><li><strong>Original installation:<\/strong> 1986, marking Earhart&rsquo;s 1932 transatlantic departure point<\/li><li><strong>Stolen:<\/strong> December 2023<\/li><li><strong>Recovered:<\/strong> Late 2025 in a Quebec scrapyard, badly damaged<\/li><li><strong>Restored:<\/strong> 18 months of restoration work by sculptor Morgan MacDonald<\/li><li><strong>Re-installed:<\/strong> 20 May 2026 &mdash; 94 years to the day after Earhart&rsquo;s solo crossing<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why Harbour Grace<\/h2>\n\n<p>Harbour Grace, on Newfoundland&rsquo;s east coast, was a long-vanished name in commercial aviation by the time Earhart picked it. In the 1920s and 1930s, before paved transatlantic routes existed and before any aircraft could safely make the crossing without one fuel stop, Harbour Grace was the launching point. Most of the early transatlantic attempts &mdash; Lindbergh-era pilots, Italian air-racers, Australian aviators &mdash; staged from its tiny grass strip.<\/p>\n\n<p>On 20 May 1932, Earhart took off from Harbour Grace in her bright-red Lockheed Vega 5B, intending to fly solo to Paris. She instead landed 14 hours 56 minutes later in a cow pasture near Culmore, Northern Ireland &mdash; the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. The Vega 5B survives. It hangs today in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"max-width:550px;margin:0 auto 28px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?id=1788432198247649281&#038;theme=light\" style=\"width:100%;height:400px;border:none;border-radius:12px;overflow:hidden\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The town of Harbour Grace never quite let go of that morning. A small museum opened in the 1970s. The grass strip became the Earhart Aviation Museum. In 1986, on the 54th anniversary of the flight, the bronze statue was unveiled at the edge of the field by Amelia&rsquo;s niece, Mary Earhart Morrissey. It became a fixture of the town and of every transatlantic-aviation tour guidebook printed since.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=853852140  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:EFFX.be44\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/amelia-earhart-cockpit-lockheed-vega-transatlantic.jpg\" alt=\"Amelia Earhart in the cockpit of her Lockheed Vega 5B\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Earhart in the cockpit of her Lockheed Vega 5B, the aircraft she flew solo from Harbour Grace to Northern Ireland on 20-21 May 1932.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The theft and the long wait<\/h2>\n\n<p>On the morning of 19 December 2023, a Harbour Grace resident walking past the airfield noticed the empty plinth. The statue, which weighed roughly 180 kg and was bolted to a concrete base, had been cut off at the ankles with an angle-grinder during the night. Snow had covered the tracks. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police took the case. Nothing surfaced for the next 22 months.<\/p>\n\n<p>In October 2025, a scrap-metal yard near Sherbrooke, Quebec, contacted police about an unusual bronze figure brought in by a courier two weeks earlier. The yard had paused the smelt because the bronze was clearly art-quality, not industrial scrap. A photograph was sent to the RCMP. The statue had survived. It had been damaged: both arms were broken, the face had been deliberately defaced with a punch, and the plinth-anchor bolts had been sawn off. But it was recoverable.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;Some pieces of art you save with a chemical wash and a polish. This one needed both arms re-cast, the face entirely re-tooled, and a full structural rebuild of the legs. But the core was sound. Amelia survived. That felt important.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Morgan MacDonald<\/strong> &mdash; Sculptor (Newfoundland Bronze Foundry), who restored the statue<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A small town, a big flight, a bronze that came home<\/h2>\n\n<p>The re-installation ceremony on 20 May 2026 drew several hundred people to a town of fewer than two thousand. The Earhart Aviation Museum reopened its small exhibit. Schoolchildren read passages from Earhart&rsquo;s memoir, &ldquo;The Fun of It.&rdquo; A Lockheed Vega replica owned by a Canadian warbird collector made a single low flyby at the moment the cover was pulled.<\/p>\n\n<p>The statue&rsquo;s new plinth is concrete reinforced with steel rebar. The anchor bolts are titanium, set deep into the foundation. There are now cameras. Harbour Grace is taking no chances.<\/p>\n\n<p>Amelia Earhart vanished in 1937 somewhere over the central Pacific, three years after her transatlantic flight from this small town. Her aircraft was never found. Her body was never recovered. The mystery of her disappearance has occupied aviation historians for nearly a century. The bronze that stood at Harbour Grace from 1986 was, in a real sense, the place she had last clearly existed in &mdash; the launching point, the runway, the moment before the flight. To lose it for two years and get it back was, for the people of Harbour Grace, the closest aviation history can offer to a happy ending.<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#888;font-style:italic;margin-top:24px\">Sources: Flying Magazine, CBC News, Newfoundland Bronze Foundry, Newfoundland and Aviation History.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Related Posts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/amelia-earhart-first-across-the-atlantic-then-she-vanished\/\">Amelia Earhart: First Across the Atlantic &mdash; Then She Vanished<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bronze statue of Amelia Earhart that stood for forty years at the edge of the airfield at Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, vanished one cold December night in 2023. Police investigated. 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