Amelia Earhart's 1937 Cord convertible is about to go on display on the National Mall

Mention Amelia Earhart, and we instantly connect the name with the flight of an airplane … her Lockheed Electra that vanished over the ocean in 1937. But there’s another conveyance the aviatrix coveted: a long-lost 1937 Cord 812 Phaeton convertible that is about to go on display on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

The handsome, low-slung classic will be presented Thursday as part of the Hagerty Drivers Foundation’s annual “Cars at the Capital” exhibition. It will remain on the Mall only a week — until September 5.

Earhart was the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air — and the first person to cross it twice. She was determined to circumnavigate the Earth; on May 21, 1937, she and navigator Fred Noonan left Oakland, California, and headed east. After covering 22,000 miles over several weeks, they touched down in New Guinea for fuel, departing on July 2, 1937. They vanished over the South Pacific.

Earhart's husband, George Putnam, commissioned several expensive searches, but nothing turned up. In 1939, he had her officially declared dead and liquidated parts of her estate, including the Cord.