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Flight distance records without refueling. Some records were certified by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.
Non commercial aircraft
Year | Date | Distance | Pilot | Aircraft | Reference |
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2006 | February 12, 2006 | 42,469.46 km | Steve Fossett | GlobalFlyer | Steve Fossett.[1] |
1986 | December 23, 1986 | 40,212.14 km | Richard Glenn Rutan and Jeana Yeager | Rutan Voyager | Fédération Aéronautique Internationale record holder up to 2006. |
1946 | September 29 - October 2, 1946 | 18,083.6 km | Cdr. Tom Davies (pilot), Cdr. Eugene Rankin (co-pilot), and two crew |
Lockheed P2V-1 Neptune | From Perth, Australia to Columbus, Ohio |
1937 | July 12 - 14, 1937 | 10,148.5 km | Mikhail Gromov and crew | Tupolev ANT-25 | From Moscow to San Jacinto, California |
1927 | 3,862.43 km | Albert Francis Hegenberger and Lester Maitland | Fokker F.VII | From California to Hawaii, the longest open sea flight up to that date, in the "Bird of Paradise". They received the Mackey Trophy and the Distinguished Flying Cross from President Coolidge for this achievement. [2] | |
1903 | December 17, 1903 | 279 m | Wilbur Wright | Wright Flyer | 59 seconds |
1903 | December 17, 1903 | 39 m | Orville Wright | Wright Flyer | 12 seconds |
Commercial aircraft
Year | Date | Distance | Pilot | Aircraft | Reference |
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2005 | November 9, 2005 | 21,602.22 km | Suzanna Darcy-Henneman | B777-200LR | Hong Kong International Airport to London Heathrow Airport taking 22 hours, 22 minutes [3] |
2004 | June 28, 2004 | 16,600 km | A340-500 | Singapore Airlines between Singapore and New York (Newark Airport) in 18 hours 18 minutes. [1] | |
2004 | February 3, 2004 | 14,093 km | A340-500 | Singapore Airlines between Singapore and Los Angeles in 14 hours 42 minutes.[2] |
Other types of aircraft
Date | Measurement | Person | Aircraft | Reference |
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January 21, 2003 | 3,008.8 km | Klaus Ohlmann and Gerhard Marzinzik | Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-4 | The gliding flight consisted of four legs along the eastern side of the Andes mountain range. The flight time of 15h 8m giving an average speed of almost exactly 200 km/h.[4] |
March 21, 1999 | 40,814 km | Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones | Breitling Orbiter | Distance record for a balloon |
References
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Speed records Distance records see also: Spaceflight records | FAI records |
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