Aviation mysteries A lot of Valley people may not know this, or even care for that matter, but Amelia Earhart once landed at the Brownsville Airport. The year was 1929, and the famed aviatrix was helping the city officially open the new airport.Today, there is a sculpture of her at Dean Porter Park in Brownsville, helping to commemorate the event.The MysteriesFor pilots, the famous mysteries are always lurking in the back of our minds: what really happened to so and so?Take Amelia Earhart, for example, did she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, make it to some deserted island, only to ...