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An Edina man's mother got the helmet from a boy who had a crush on her; they were among a crowd greeting the famous aviator in 1929.

A flight cap worn by pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart nearly a century ago sold for a staggering $825,000 at a recent auction.

The seller was Anthony Twiggs, a 67-year-old Minnesotan who had tried for years to prove that the leather aviator's helmet he inherited from his mother was really Earhart's.

Renowned US pilot Amelia Earhart's leather helmet has been sold for $825,000 at an auction in Cleveland. The 39-year-old had worn the helmet on a flight across the Atlantic in 1928 and had later lost it in a crowd of fans. Anthony Twiggs, a 67-year-old man from Minnesota had inherited the aviator’s helmet from his mother but had trouble proving that it was original. Earhart wore the same helmet the following year in the Women’s National Air Derby, an all-female race from Santa Monica, California, to Cleveland.

The pioneering aviator wore the helmet during a 1928 flight