Flight distance record

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This list of flight distance records contains only those set without any mid-air refueling.

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Non-commercial powered aircraft

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YearDateDistancePilotAircraftNotes
2006February 8–12, 200641,467.46 km Steve Fossett GlobalFlyer Single pilot (Steve Fossett) flight. [1] [2]
1986December 14–23, 198640,212.14 km Richard Glenn Rutan and Jeana Yeager Rutan Voyager Circumnavigation. Fédération Aéronautique Internationale record holder up to 2006 (current class holder). [3]
1962January 10–11, 196220,168.78 km
(12532.3 mi)		Major Clyde P. Evely and crew Boeing B-52H Stratofortress From Kadena AB, Okinawa, to Torrejon AB, Spain, via Tokyo, Seattle, Fort Worth, Washington and the Azores [4]
1946September 29 – October 2, 194618,083.6 km CDR Tom Davies pilot, Cdr. Eugene Rankin (co-pilot) and two crew P2V-1 Neptune From Perth, Australia to Columbus, Ohio, US
1944July 2, 194416,435 km Imperial Japanese Army Air Service (Omata, Tanaka, Shimazaki, Sakamoto, Motimatsu, Habiro) Tachikawa Ki-77 From Xinjing to Baicheng, China (closed circuit)
1939August 1, 193912,936 km (8,038 mi) Regia Aeronautica: Angelo Tondi, Riccardo Dogasso, Ferruccio Vignoni, Aldo Staiano Savoia-Marchetti SM.82 Closed-circuit world record
1945November 20, 194512,739.6 km U.S. Army Air Forces; C. S. Irvine + crew of 9 Boeing B-29 Superfortress From Guam to Washington
1938November 5–7, 193811,520.4 km
(7,162 miles)		 Royal Air Force Long Range Development Unit; R. Kellett, H.A.V. Hogan and A. N. Combe (first pilots) + crew of two (also qualified pilots) in each aircraft Vickers Wellesley From Ismailia, Egypt, to Darwin, Northern Territory, in Australia; three aircraft flew in formation, Hogan landed to refuel at Koepang (500 miles short of Darwin, Australia), the other two landed at Darwin, Northern Territory. [5]
1938May 13–15, 193811,651.011 km Yuzoh Fujita + crew (Japan) Koken-ki Three-corner course over Japan. Closed-circuit record. [6]
1937July 12–14, 193710,148.5 km Mikhail Gromov + crew (Soviet Union) Tupolev ANT-25 From Moscow to San Jacinto  [ ru ], California, US
1933August 5–7, 19339,104.7 km Maurice Rossi and Paul Codos (France) Blériot 110 F-ALCCFrom Floyd Bennett Field, New York to Rayak, Syria
1933February 8, 19338,544 km Royal Air Force Long Range Development Unit; O. R. Gayford and Gilbert Nicholetts Fairey Long-range Monoplane K1991From Cranwell, UK, to Walvis Bay, South Africa
1931August 18–298,940 km Marga von Etzdorf Junkers A 50ce Junior From Berlin Tempelhof Airport to Haneda Airport
1931October 58,851 km Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon Bellanca CH-400 or Bellanca J-300 ''Miss Veedol'' FromWenatchee Washington to Misawa Japan
1931July 28–318,066 km Russell Boardman and John Polando Bellanca J-300 Special Cape Cod NR761WFrom Floyd Bennett Field to Istanbul [7]
1929December 15–19, 19298,029.44 km Dieudonné Costes and P. Codas Breguet 19 Super Bidon Point d'InterrogationClosed-circuit record. [8] [9]
1929September 27–29, 19297,905.140 km Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Bellonte Breguet 19 Super Bidon Point d'InterrogationParis to Qiqihar, China. [10]
1928July 3–5, 19287,188.26 km Arturo Ferrarin and Carlo del PreteSavoia Marchetti S.64From Montecelio (Italy) to Touros (Brasil). Distance in a straight line. FAI Database ID#9108
1927June 28–293,862.43 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 Calvin Coolidge for this achievement. [11]
1927May 20–21, 19275,809 km Charles Lindbergh Ryan NYP, Spirit of St. Louis Single pilot flight, New York to Paris [12] [13]
1926October 28–29, 19265,396 km Dieudonné Costes and Jean RignotBreguet 19 GRFrom Paris–Le Bourget Airport to Djask, Iran [14] [15]
1926August 31 – September 1, 19265,174 kmLéon Challe and René Weiser Breguet 19 GRFrom Paris–Le Bourget Airport to Bandar Abbas [14] [16]
1926July 14–15, 19264715.90 kmAndré Girier and François DordillyBreguet 19 GRFrom Paris to Omsk [14] [17]
1926June 26–27, 19264313 kmLudovic Arrachart and Paul Arrachart Potez 28 From Paris to Basrah, Iraq [18] [19]
1925August 30–31, 19253,206 km CDR John Rodgers (USN) PN-9 Flying Boat From San Francisco and Honolulu by Seaplane over open water without visual navigational aides. [20] [21]
1925August 7–9, 19254,400 km Maurice Drouhin and Jules Landry Farman F.62 Goliath Closed circuit Chartres–Étampes–Toussus–Chartres. [22] [23]
1925February 3–4, 19253,166.30 kmLudovic Arrachart and Henry Lemaitre Breguet 19 Distance in a straight line record. Étampes–Villa Cisneros. [24] [25]
1923April 16–17, 19234,050 km Oakley G. Kelly and John A. Macready Fokker T.2 Closed circuit around Dayton, Ohio [26] [27]
1920June 3–4, 19201,915.2 kmL Boussoutrot and J Bernard Farman Goliath Closed-circuit record [28]
1919June 14–15, 19193,040 km John Alcock and Arthur Brown Vickers Vimy Flew non-stop from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Connemara, in 15 hours 57 minutes
1914February 7, 19141,699 km Karl Ingold Mercedes Aviatik-Pfeil [29] He flew continuously from 7:35 am until 11:55 pm covering 1,056 miles in 16 hours and 20 minutes. [30]
1903December 17, 1903279 m Wilbur Wright Wright Flyer 59 seconds
1903December 17, 190339 m Orville Wright Wright Flyer 12 seconds
1852September 24, 185227.36 km
(17 miles)		 Henri Giffard The Giffard airship Over an hour [31]

Commercial aircraft

YearDateDistancePilotAircraftReference
2005November 9, 200521,601 km [32] Suzanna Darcy-Henneman, Richard Austin, John Cashman, Mathew Mathew, Frank P. Santoni Jr, Philip Schultz, Rodney Skaar [32] Boeing 777-200LR Hong Kong International Airport to London Heathrow Airport the long way round taking 22 hours, 22 minutes [33] [34]
1997April 2, 199720,045 km [35] Frank P. Santoni Jr, Richard Austin, John Cashman, Charles Hovlano, Joseph McDonald, James McRoberts, Rodney Skaar [35] Boeing 777-200ER Malaysia Airlines delivery flight from Boeing Field, Seattle to Kuala Lumpur International Airport in 21 hours and 23 minutes. [36] [37]
1993June 16 to 18, 199319,246 km [38] [39] Pierre Baud, Gérard Guyot, Nicholas "Nick" Warner, Bernard Ziegler [39] Airbus A340-200 Set two new records as it flew an around the world route. First flying 19,089 kilometres (11,861 mi; 10,307 nmi) from Paris-Le Bourget Airport to Auckland, New Zealand in 21 hours and 32 minutes. [40] After a 5 hour layover, the flight continued east-bound on a slightly longer route back to Paris-Le Bourget flying 19,246 kilometres (11,959 mi; 10,392 nmi), covering a great circle distance of 18,541 kilometres (11,521 mi; 10,011 nmi) [41] in 21 hours and 46 minutes. [42] [43] [44]
2011December 6, 201119,142 km [45] [46] Michael Carriker, Chad Lundy, Gregory McCann, William Roberson, Rodney Skaar, Christine Walsh [45] Boeing 787-8 Boeing Field to Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka, Bangladesh in 21 hours and 43 minutes on a trans-atlantic eastward route. [47]
2020April 14 to 15, 202018,209 km Boeing 777-300ER Virgin Australia ferry flight from Charles de Gaulle Airport to Brisbane Airport in 19 hours and 45 minutes; returning after evacuating French citizens from New Zealand due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2019November 14 to 15, 201917,750 km Boeing 787-9 Qantas Between London Heathrow Airport and Sydney International Airport in 19 hours and 19 minutes. [48]
2013June 6, 201317,312 km Airbus A330-200 Delta Air Lines ferry flight between Singapore and Atlanta in 18 hours and 34 minutes; returning from extensive cabin renovations.
1989August 16 to 17, 198917,039 km [49] David Massy-Greene [49] Boeing 747-400 Qantas delivery flight from London Heathrow Airport to Sydney International Airport in 20 hours and 9 minutes. [50] [51]
2002December 24, 200216,901 km [52] Bruce Simpson, David Collier, Bruce Van Eyle, James Peach [52] Airbus A330-200 Qantas between Toulouse and Melbourne in 20 hours 4 minutes. [53]
2004June 28, 200416,467 km [54] Airbus A340-500 Singapore Airlines between Singapore and Newark, New Jersey, in a scheduled time of 18 hours 20 minutes covering approximately 16,600 km. It was the longest regularly scheduled commercial flight except until termination on November 23, 2013, and relaunch on October 18, 2018 [55] until being surpassed in 2020.
2019October 18 to 20, 201916,200 km Boeing 787-9 Qantas between New York and Sydney in 19 hours 16 minutes. [56] [57]
2003November 5, 200315,300 km Boeing 777-300ER Boeing Company between Sydney and Recife, Brazil in 18 hours 25 minutes. ETOPS test flight. [58]
2017February 5, 201714,535 km Boeing 777-200LR Qatar Airways between Doha and Auckland in 16 hours 10 minutes, formerly the world's longest commercial flight.
2004February 3, 200414,093 km Airbus A340-500 Singapore Airlines between Singapore and Los Angeles in 14 hours 42 minutes. [55]
1988September 17, 198814,042 km Boeing 767-200ER Air Mauritius between Halifax and Mauritius in 16 hours and 27 minutes.

Shortest distance

The Loganair Westray to Papa Westray route and its return flight make up the shortest flight distance for any scheduled air carrier service. The route is 2.8 km (1.7 miles), and travel time, including taxi, is usually less than two minutes. The route is served by Loganair airlines' Britten-Norman Islander aircraft. This record was established when service began in 1967, and it remains in effect as of December 2022. [59] [60]

Other types of aircraft

DateMeasurementPersonAircraftReference
January 21, 20033,008.8 km Klaus Ohlmann and Karl Rabeder 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. [61] [62]
March 21, 199940,814 km Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones Breitling Orbiter Distance record for a balloon
January 31, 201510,711 kmTroy Bradley and Leonid Tiukhtyaev Two Eagles Balloon Distance record for a straight gas balloon
April 23, 1988115.11 km Kanellos Kanellopoulos Daedalus 88 Straight distance record for Humanpowered aeroplane. This record was achieved by flying from Iraklion to Santorini Island for 3 h 54 min 59 sec. [63] [64]

See also

Notes and references

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