FAI General Aviation Commission (GAC) Open menu Close menu HOME ABOUT US Overview ORGANISATION Bureau Presidents of Honour Delegates Subcommittees Officials/Experts Meetings OUR SPORT Overview Air Navigation Race Precision Flight Rally Flying FAI CIRCUMNAVIGATION DIPLOMA Overview Eastbound Circumnavigation Westbound Circumnavigation Polar Diploma Approved Equipment GNSS Flight Recorders Events Records Awards News Contact us Documents Records Fulltext search Advanced Powered Aeroplanes (3) Facet General Aviation of Class 376 (1) 553 (1) 554 (1) Facet General Aviation of record Alexandre Galunenko Alexandre Turumine Allen E. Paulson Arlen D. Rens Boris I. Veremey Brooke Knapp Claude Delorme Claude Meunier Clay Lacy Clifford V. Tait Danford A. Bookout Dietrich Schmitt Dominic Rivers Donald P. Taylor Douglas G. Matthews E.K. Coventry (-) Elgen M. Long Frank J. Quigg Geoffrey G. Boot Hans Georg Schmid Ivan Soukhomline J. Jeffrey Brausch Jacqueline Cochran Jared Isaacman Jon Johanson Jose Alfredo Gastelum Arce Judith M. Chisholm Larry S. Mueller Lev Vasilyevich Kozlov Lyle H. Schaefer Marie E. Mcmillan Marina Popovitch Millard Harmon Olexander Halunenko Peter H. Burgher Richard Flohr Robert F. Olszewski Robert Thompson Sheila Scott Steve Fossett Steve Wood Susan Nealey Terrance L. Jantzi Thomas Weston Thomas William Hayhow Troy Asher Vaughn B. Cordle Victor Davies Vladimir Tersky William Libby William M. Brooks Facet General Aviation of field_athlete World (3) Facet General Aviation of Zone (-) ratified - current record (1) (-) ratified - retired by changes of the sporting code (2) Facet General Aviation of Status United States Facet General Aviation of Country 1: internal combustion engine (3) Facet General Aviation of Group Class Sub-Class Type of record Performance Date Sort ascending Claimant Status Region ID Powered Aeroplanes C-1e Speed around the world over both the Earth's poles 93,05 km/h 03 Dec 1971 Elgen M. Long (USA) ratified - current record World 2186 Twitter Facebook → ⌄ Powered Aeroplanes C-1e Speed between two points of the Equator over a Pole 65,328 km/h 28 Nov 1971 Elgen M. Long (USA) (17088) ratified - retired by changes of the sporting code World 17088 Twitter Facebook → ⌄ Powered Aeroplanes C-1e Speed between the Earth's Poles 59,709 km/h 22 Nov 1971 Elgen M. Long (USA) (17087) ratified - retired by changes of the sporting code World 17087 Twitter Facebook → ⌄