Height, depth and spaceWorld record
Highest helicopter flight
Record
12.442 km
7.731 mi
- Holder
- Jean Boulet
- Year
- Standing since
- 1972 (54 years)
What to remember
On 21 June 1972, Jean Boulet took off from air base 125 Istres-Le Tubé at the controls of a Sud-Aviation SA315B Lama. He climbed to 12.442 km: no helicopter has gone higher.
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- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “Record d'altitude” (revision used 229680401). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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