Flight distance record

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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
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.
1962	January 10 - 11, 1962	20,177 km		Boeing B-52 Stratofortress	From Kadena AB, Okinawa to Torrejon AB, Spain
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, USA
1945	November 20, 1945	12,739.6 km	USAF; C.S. Irvine + crew of 9	Boeing B-29 Superfortress	From Guam to Washington DC, USA
1938	November 5-7, 1938	11,520.4 km	RAF Long Range Development Unit; R. Kellett, H.A.V. Hogan and A.N. Combe (first pilots) + crew of two in each aircraft	Vickers Wellesley	From Ismailia, Egypt to Darwin, Australia; three aircraft flew in formation, Hogan landed to refuel at Koepang (500 miles short of Darwin), thus (officially) holding the record (10,715.5km) until the other two landed at Darwin!
1937	May 13-15, 1937	11,651.011 km	Yuzoh Fujita + crew (Japan)	Koken-ki	three-corner course over Japan
1937	July 12 - 14, 1937	10,148.5 km	Mikhail Gromov + crew (Russia)	Tupolev ANT-25	From Moscow to San Jacinto, California, USA
1933	August 7, 1933	9,104.7 km	J.M. Rossi and P. Codos (France)	Blériot 110 F-ALCC	From Floyd Bennett Field, New York, USA to Rayack, Syria
1933	February 8, 1933	8,544 km	RAF Long Range Development Unit; O.R. Gayford and G.E. Nicholetts	Fairey Long-range Monoplane K1991	From Cranwell, UK, to Walvis Bay, South Africa
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 Calvin 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
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
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

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Published in July 2009.

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