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OTHER AIRCRAFT |
| YEAR | CREW | NATION | TYPE | AIRCRAFT | REG | PHOTO | ROUTE | REMARKS |
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| 1982 | Ross Perot Jr Jay Coburn |
USA | Bell 206L-1 Long Ranger II |
Spirit of Texas | N3911Z |  |
EAST 29 days |
First helicopter (+ Hercules chase plane) |
| 1982- 1983 |
Dick Smith | AUSTRALIA | Bell 206 Long Ranger III |
Australian Explorer | VH-DIK |  |
EAST | First solo helicopter |
| 1994 | Ron Bower | USA | Bell 206B-3 Jet Ranger II |
N206AJ |  |
EAST 24 days |
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| 1994- 1995 |
Dick & Pip Smith | AUSTRALIA | Sikorsky S76 | World Explorer | VH-SHW |  |
WEST | |
| 1996 | Jennifer Murray Quentin Smith |
UK | Robinson 44 | G-MURY |  |
EAST | First piston helicopter, first female pilot | |
| 1996-1995 | Ron Bower John Williams |
USA | Bell 430 | N430Q |  |
WEST 17 days |
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| 2000 | Jennifer Murray | UK | Robinson 44 | G-MURY | |
EAST | Accompanied by Colin Bodill in a "microlight", another R44 and a Caravan chase plane | |
| 2001 | Dari Shalon & Michel Verniol | Eurocopter AS350B3 | LX-HDS |  |
EAST | |||
| 2001 | Simon Oliphant-Hope | UK | MD Notar | N9201U | EAST | An attempt to break Ron Bower's record | ||
| 2004 | Simon Oliphant-Hope | UK | MD500E | N5144Q | EAST | Speed Record: 17 days, 14 Hrs, 2 mns,27 secs | ||
| 2007 | Jennifer Murray and Colin Boddil | UK | Bell 407 | N407PF |  |
Pole to Pole |
| YEAR | CREW | NATION | TYPE | AIRCRAFT | REG | PHOTO | ROUTE | REMARKS |
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| 1976 | Don Taylor | USA | Thorp T18 | Victoria 76 | N455T |  |
EAST | First home built |
| 1986 | Dick Rutan Jeana Yeager |
USA | Voyager | Voyager | N269VA | EAST | First non stop unrefuelled flight around the World |
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| 1995 | Jon Johanson | AUSTRALIA | Van RV4 | VH-NOJ |  |
EAST | ||
| 1996 | Hans Gutmann | AUSTRIA | Glasair IIS-RG | Elisabeth | OE-CGH |  |
EAST | |
| 1996 | Jon Johanson | AUSTRALIA | Van RV4 | VH-NOJ | |
WEST | Second flight | |
| 1997 | Dick Rutan | USA | Long EZ | N169SH | EAST 81 days |
Flying together | ||
| Mike Melvill | USA | N26MS | ||||||
| 1997 | Gary Burns Alex Schenk |
AUSTRALIA | Lancair IV | VH-LKG |  |
EAST 42 days |
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| 2000 | H G Schmid | SWITZERLAND | Long EZ | bsp; | HB-YCT |  |
EAST 27 days |
First flight |
| 2000 | H G Schmid | SWITZERLAND | Long EZ | HB-YCT | |
WEST 27 days |
Second flight | |
| 2000 | Jon Johanson | AUSTRALIA | Van RV4 | VH-NOJ | |
EAST | Via the North Pole | |
| 2001 | Michel Gordillo | SPAIN | MCR-01 | EC-ZBQ |  |
EAST | Seneca chase plane |
| YEAR | CREW | NATION | TYPE | AIRCRAFT | REG | PHOTO | ROUTE | REMARKS |
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| 1929 | Dr. Hugo Eckener Ernst Lehmann & crew |
GERMANY | Airship | Graf Zeppelin | LZ127 |  |
EAST 21 days |
First airship |
| 1999 | Bertrand Picard Brian Jones |
SWISS / UK | Rosiere balloon | Breitling Orbiter 3 | HB-BRA | EAST 21 days |
First Balloon | |
| 2002 | Steve Fossett | USA | Cameron Rozière | Spirit of Freedom |  |
EAST 14 days | First non-stop solo in a hot air balloon |
| YEAR | CREW | NATION | TYPE | AIRCRAFT | REG | PHOTO | ROUTE | REMARKS |
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| 1998 | Brian Milton + K. Reynolds, P. Petrov ( part of the way) |
UK | Trike | GT Global Flyer | EAST 121 days |
First trike 23,130 SM | ||
| 2000 | Colin Bodill | UK | Mainair Blade 912S | EAST 99 days |
Accompanying Jennifer Murray in a helicopter 23,000 n.m | |||
| 2004 | Ricky De Angrela | South Africa | Micro-light |  |
EAST |
Shipped over oceans 34,550 NM |
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| 2007 | Rahul Monga with Anil Kumar and Valery Romanov | INDIA | CTSW | ML105 |  |
EAST |
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