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Farthest distance flown in ballooning’s Gordon Bennett Cup

Farthest distance flown in ballooning’s Gordon Bennett Cup
Who
Bob Berben, Benoît Siméons
What
3,400.39 kilometre(s)
Where
Not Applicable
When
05 October 2005

The farthest distance flown at the Gordon Bennett Cup (also known as the Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett) is 3,400.39 km (2,112.90 miles), by Bob Berben and Benoît Siméons (both Belgium) in N6326T, on 2–5 October 2005. They flew from Albuquerque in New Mexico, USA, to Saint-Michel-du-Squatec in Quebec, Canada, breaking a race record of 2,191 km that had stood since 1912.

First staged in 1906, the Gordon Bennett Cup is the oldest aviation race. Its winners are the pilots who can guide their 1,000-m³ gas balloons the farthest from the launch site.