Elgen M. Long (USA)

Status 
ratified - current record
Zone 
World
Class 
C (Powered Aeroplanes)
Sub-Class 
C-1e (Landplanes: take off weight 3 000 to 6 000 kg)
Group 
1: internal combustion engine
Type of record 
Speed around the world over both the Earth's poles
Performance 
93,05 km/h
Date 
03 Dec 1971
Course / Location 
San Francisco, CA (USA) and return (via Fairbanks, Pt. Barrow, North Pole, Tromso, Stockholm, London, Accra, Equator, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Punta Arenas, South Pole, McMurdo, Sydney, Nandi, Equator, Wake Island, Tokyo, Wake Island, Honolulu)
Claimant 
Elgen M. Long (USA)
Type of engine 
TIO-540
Aircraft 
PA-31 Navajo
Aircraft manufacturer 
Piper
Aircraft engine manufacturer 
Lycoming
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