Elgen M. Long (USA)

Status 
ratified - retired by changes of the sporting code
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 between two points of the Equator over a Pole
Performance 
65,328 km/h
Date 
28 Nov 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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