Height, depth and spaceWorld record
Highest altitude of a piston-driven propeller monoplane without payload
Record
18.552 km
11.528 mi
- Holder
- Grob Strato 2C
- Year
- Standing since
- 1995 (31 years)
What to remember
Two Teledyne Continental TSIOL-550 piston engines: with that power, the Grob Strato 2C climbed to 18.552 km, or 60,870 ft, on 4 August 1995. No piston-driven propeller monoplane has gone higher.
The record was set without a payload.
Flight altitude records go back to the age of ballooning, and not all of them were certified by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, founded on 14 October 1905 in Paris.
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- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “List of flight altitude records” (revision used 1378383058). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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