ATCHISON — An airplane similar to one flown by Amelia Earhart when she disappeared in 1937 is flying this week to Earhart’s home in Kansas.

The fuselage of a 1935 Lockheed Electra L-10E, outfitted exactly like the one Earhart used when she tried to fly around the world, will begin a five-day journey Monday from California to Atchison, where Earhart was born.

The Wichita Eagle reports the airplane will be put on permanent display at the Atchison Amelia Earhart Foundation. The organization plans to build a museum commemorating the flight when Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared in July 1937.

The plane was acquired from Grace McGuire, a pilot who spent three decades restoring it. McGuire got the plane from a defunct museum in Orlando, Florida.

It’s expected to arrive in Atchison Friday.

Foundation director Karen Seaberg said enough money has been raised to build a hangar shell for the planet at the Amelia Earhart Airport in Atchison. Seabery said that more money will have to be raised to transform the hangar into a museum that will showcase other artifacts, including Lockheed Electra L-10A, modified to a Model E cockpit that visitors will be able to sit in.

It is estimated that $500,000 is needed to complete the museum.

McGuire had planned to restore the plane so it was airworthy and then complete Earhart’s original 29,000-mile flight before multiple sclerosis forced her to cancel her plan.