Fred Noonan

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Fred Noonan
Born	Frederick Joseph Noonan (1893-04-04)April 4, 1893 Cook County, Illinois, U.S.
Disappeared	July 2, 1937 (aged 44) Pacific Ocean, en route to Howland Island from Lae, New Guinea
Status	Declared dead in absentia[1] (1938-06-20)June 20, 1938
Occupation	Navigator
Spouses	Josephine Sullivan ​ ​ (m. 1927; div. 1937)​ Mary Beatrice Martinelli (née Passadori) ​ ​ (m. 1937)​
Parent(s)	Joseph T. Noonan Catherine Egan Noonan

Frederick Joseph Noonan (born April 4, 1893 – disappeared July 2, 1937, declared dead June 20, 1938) was an American flight navigator, sea captain and aviation pioneer, who first charted many commercial airline routes across the Pacific Ocean during the 1930s.^[2] As the flight navigator for famed aviator Amelia Earhart in their pioneering attempt at circumnavigating the globe, they disappeared somewhere over the central Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937.