Chronological listing of known flights around the world where
the aircraft have been shipped over oceans or parts thereof.
These flights do not meet the full criteria established by Earthrounders,
namely that the same pilot(s) fly the same aircraft for the entire circuit around the world,
but they are listed here in recognition of their respective journeys.
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| YEAR |
CREW |
NATION |
TYPE |
AIRCRAFT |
REG |
PHOTO |
ROUTE |
REMARKS |
| 1927-1928 |
Dieudonné Costes Joseph Le Brix |
FRANCE |
Bré guet-Hispano XIXGR |
Nungesser et Coli |
|
|
WEST |
Shipped San Francisco to Tokyo 35,944 Miles 338 hrs - Oct 10 1927 to 14 Apr 1928 |
1929 1930 |
Baron Frederick Karl Koenig-Warthausen |
GERMANY |
Daimler-Klemm 20hp engine |
Kamerad Huenefeld |
D 1433 |
|
EAST |
Shipped over oceans 9 Aug -23 Nov 450 hrs |
| 1931 |
Richard Halliburton & Moye Stephens as pilot |
USA |
Stearman C3B |
The Flying Carpet |
NR 882N |
|
EAST |
Shipped across Atlantic and Pacific |
| 1931 |
Charles Healy & Gladys M. Day |
USA |
Homebuilt |
Errant |
|
|
EAST |
Shipped across the Pacific 6 May to 20 Dec |
1930 1931 |
Mary Bruce |
UK |
Blackburn Bluebird IV |
Bluebird |
G-ABDS |
|
EAST |
Shipped across Pacific and Atlantic 25 Sep 1930 to 20 Feb 1931 |
| 1931-32 |
Elly Beinhorn |
GERMANY |
Klemm |
|
D-2160 |
|
EAST |
Shipped across Pacific and Atlantic |
| 1969 |
Cliff Vincent Tait |
NZ |
Airtourer115 |
Miss Jacy |
ZK-CXU |
|
EAST |
Shipped Tokyo - Vancouver 30,500 Miles 284 hrs in 80 days 5 hrs 30 mn |
| 1972 |
Henning Huffer |
GERMANY |
Messerschmitt-Boelkow BO 209 Monsun |
|
D-EAAC |
 |
EAST |
Shipped across the Pacific First RTW 17 March to 28 July |
| 1990/1993 |
Hans Schneider |
Germany |
Cessna 150 |
Corvus |
D-EENH |
|
|
Shipped over the oceans |
| 1996 |
Hans Gutmann |
AUSTRIA |
Glasair IIS-RG |
Elisabeth |
OE-CGH |
 |
EAST |
The leg Hawaii to California has been flow by a ferry pilot. |
| 2004 |
Ricky De Angrela |
South Africa |
Micro-light |
|
ZU-DEK |
 |
EAST
|
Shipped over oceans 34,550 NM
http://www.safreedomflight.com/ |
| 2011 |
Patrick and Linda Elliott |
UK |
LongEze |
|
G-LGEZ |
 |
EAST |
Shipped over the Pacific Ocean |
| 2012 |
Helmuth Lehner |
Austria |
WT9 Dynamic |
Spirit of Africa |
OE-7104 |
 |
EAST |
Air freighted from Pago Pago to Honolulu and then to California |
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