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{{Short description|Highest speed obtained from an air vehicle}}
Determining the '''fastest aircraft in the world''' is difficult, because of the wide variety of designs. For example, most high-speed [[aircraft]] are unable to take off under their own power, requiring a carrier aircraft.
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[[File:Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.jpg|thumb|The [[Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird]] is the current record-holder for a crewed [[airbreathing jet engine|airbreathing jet]] aircraft.]]
The [[Space Shuttle]] is the fastest aircraft, reaching speeds of 17,500 miles per hour. During reentry when it flies at its highest speed it is a [[glider]], relying on residual speed from being in [[orbit]]. It is unable to take off under its own power, requiring two [[solid rocket]] boosters and a discardable fuel tank to reach orbit. During ascent the airspeed is under Mach 2 whilst in what would normally be considered to be the atmosphere; the Shuttle leaves the atmosphere as soon as possible, and fairly plausibly isn't an aircraft as most people would consider the term on the way to orbit.
An '''air speed record''' is the highest [[airspeed]] attained by an [[aircraft]] of a particular class. The rules for all official aviation records are defined by [[Fédération Aéronautique Internationale]] (FAI),<ref name="FAI">{{cite web|url=http://www.fai.org/|title=FAI portal|access-date=24 April 2015}}</ref> which also ratifies any claims. Speed records are divided into a number of classes with sub-divisions. There are three classes of aircraft: landplanes, [[seaplane]]s, and [[amphibious aircraft|amphibians]], and within these classes there are records for aircraft in a number of weight categories. There are still further subdivisions for [[Reciprocating engine|piston-engined]], [[turbojet]], [[turboprop]], and [[Rocket engine|rocket-engined]] aircraft. Within each of these groups, records are defined for speed over a straight course and for closed circuits of various sizes carrying various payloads.


==Timeline==
The [[Boeing X-43|Boeing X-43A]] is the fastest air-breathing aircraft, having set a speed record of 11,200 km/h (7,000 mph), or Mach 9.68, on [[November 16]], [[2004]]. However, it is unmanned, and relies on a carrier aircraft to reach altitude, and a discardable booster rocket to reach the operating speed of its [[scramjet]] engine. It is also incapable of landing.
[[File:Flight airspeed records over time.svg|thumb|center|upright=2.5|Flight speed records over time, taken from the table below.]]
<span style="color:gray">Gray text</span> indicates unofficial records, including unconfirmed or unpublicized war secrets.


{| class="wikitable sortable"
The rocket-powered [[X-15]] was the fastest powered, manned aircraft, reaching a top speed of 7,274 km/h (4,510 mph) on [[October 3]], [[1967]]. However, it was rocket-powered, carrying both fuel and oxidizer. It requires a carrier aircraft to take off.
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! width="12%" rowspan="2" | Date
! width="12%" rowspan="2" | Pilot
! colspan="3" | Airspeed
! width="15%" rowspan="2" | Location
! width="25%" rowspan="2" | Notes
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! width="5%" | mph
! width="5%" | km/h
! width="15%" | Aircraft
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| 17 December 1903 || rowspan="2" | {{flagicon|United States}} [[Wilbur Wright]] || 6.82 || 10.98 || ''[[Wright Flyer]]'' || [[Kitty Hawk, North Carolina|Kitty Hawk]], North Carolina, US || This figure is groundspeed, not airspeed. The Wrights' first flight covered just over 120&nbsp;ft (37 m) and about 12 seconds into a gusty wind. The Wrights estimated airspeed at 31&nbsp;mph (50&nbsp;km/h).
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| 5 October 1904 || 37.85 || 60.23 || [[Wright Flyer III]] ||[[Huffman Prairie]], Ohio, US ||
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|12 November 1906 || {{flagicon|Brazil}} [[Alberto Santos-Dumont]] || 25.65 || 41.292 || [[Santos-Dumont 14-bis|Santos-Dumont ''14-bis'']] ||Bagatelle Castle, Paris, France ||First officially recognized airspeed record.<ref name="Cooper p619">Cooper ''Flight'' 25 May 1951, p. 619.</ref><ref name="Munson">{{cite book|last1=Munson|first1=Kenneth|title=Jane's Pocket Book of Record-breaking Aircraft|date=1978|publisher=Macmillan|location=New York, New York, US|isbn=0-02-080630-2|edition=First Collier Books Edition 1981|ref=Munson}}</ref>{{rp|7}}
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| 26 October 1907 || {{flagicon|France}} [[Henry Farman]] || 32.73 || 52.700 || [[Voisin (aircraft)|Voisin-Farman I]] || [[Issy-les-Moulineaux]], France || <ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|9}}
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| 25 May 1909 || {{flagicon|France}} [[Paul Tissandier]] || 34.04 || 54.810 || Wright Model A || [[Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques|Pau]], France || <ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|11}}
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| 23 August 1909 || {{flagicon|United States}} [[Glenn Curtiss]] || 44.367 || 69.821 || [[Curtiss No. 2]] || rowspan="3" | [[Reims]], France || 1909 [[Gordon Bennett Trophy (aeroplanes)|Gordon Bennett Cup]].<ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Curtiss">Bowers 1979</ref>{{rp|37–38}}
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| 24 August 1909 || rowspan="2" | {{flagicon|France}} [[Louis Blériot]] || 46.160 || 74.318 || rowspan="2" | [[Blériot XI]] || <ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|13}}
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| 28 August 1909 || 47.823 || 76.995 || <ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|13}}
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| 23 April 1910 || {{flagicon|France}} [[Hubert Latham]] || 48.186 || 77.579 || [[Antoinette VII]] || Nice, France || <ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|18}}
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| 10 July 1910 || {{flagicon|France}} [[Léon Morane]] || 66.154 || 106.508 || Blériot || Reims, France || <ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson"/>{{rp|13}}
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| 29 October 1910 || rowspan="2" | {{flagicon|France}} [[Alfred Leblanc]] || 68.171 || 109.756 || Blériot XI || New York, New York, US ||<ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|13}}
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| 12 April 1911 || 69.420 || 111.801 || Blériot || Pau, France ||<ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|14}}
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| 11 May 1911 || {{flagicon|France}} [[Édouard Nieuport]] || 73.385 || 119.760 || [[Nieuport IIN]] || [[Chalon, Isère|Châlons]], France ||<ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|25}}
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| 12 June 1911 || {{flagicon|France}} Alfred Leblanc || 77.640 || 125.000 || Blériot || ||<ref name="Cooper p619"/>
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| 16 June 1911 || rowspan="2" | {{flagicon|France}} Édouard Nieuport || 80.781 || 130.057|| rowspan="2" | Nieuport IIN || rowspan="2" | Châlons, France ||<ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|25}}
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| 21 June 1911 || 82.693 || 133.136 || <ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|25}}
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| 13 January 1912 || rowspan="7" | {{flagicon|France}} [[Jules Védrines]] || 87.68 || 145.161 || rowspan="10" |[[Deperdussin 1912 Racing Monoplane|Deperdussin Monocoque]] || rowspan="5" | Pau, France ||<ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|27}}
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| 22 February 1912 || 100.18 || 161.290 ||<ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|27}}
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|29 February 1912 || 100.90 || 162.454 ||<ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|27}}
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|1 March 1912 || 103.62 || 166.821 || <ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|27}}
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|2 March 1912 || 104.29 || 167.910 || <ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|27}}
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|13 July 1912 || 106.07 || 170.777|| Reims, France || <ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|27}}
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|9 September 1912 || 108.14 || 174.100 || Chicago, Illinois, US || <ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|27}}
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| 17 June 1913 || rowspan="3" | {{flagicon|France}} [[Maurice Prévost]] || 111.69 || 179.820 || rowspan="3" | Reims, France ||<ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|31}}
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| 27 September 1913 || 119.19 || 191.897 ||<ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|31}}
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| 29 September 1913 || 126.61 || 203.850 ||<ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|31}}
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| style="color:gray" | 1914 || style="color:gray" | {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[Norman Spratt]] || style="color:gray" | 134.5 || style="color:gray" | 216.5 || style="color:gray" | [[Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.4]] || || style="color:gray" | Unofficial
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| style="color:gray" | August 1918 || style="color:gray" | {{flagicon|United States}} [[Roland Rohlfs]] || style="color:gray" | 163 || style="color:gray" | 262.3 || style="color:gray" | [[Curtiss Wasp]] || style="color:gray" | || style="color:gray" |Not officially recognised.<ref name="Curtiss" />{{rp|140}}
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| style="color:gray" | 1919 || style="color:gray" | {{flagicon|France}} [[Joseph Sadi-Lecointe]] || style="color:gray" | 191.1 || style="color:gray" | 307.5 || style="color:gray" | [[Nieuport-Delage NiD 29]]V || style="color:gray" | || style="color:gray" |Not officially recognised.
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| 7 February 1920 || {{flagicon|France}} Joseph Sadi-Lecointe || 171.0 || 275.264 || [[Nieuport-Delage NiD 29|Nieuport-Delage NiD 29V]]|| rowspan="2" |[[Vélizy – Villacoublay Air Base|Villacoublay]], France. ||<ref name="Fight 20 p1274">[http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1920/1920%20-%201272.html?tracked=1 The Royal Aero Club of the U.K.: Official Notices to Members]". ''[[Flight International|Flight]]'', No. 625 Volume XII 16 December 1920. p. 1274.</ref> First official record post World War 1.<ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|33}}
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| 28 February 1920 || {{flagicon|France}} [[Jean Casale]] || 176.1 || 283.464 || rowspan="2" | [[SPAD S.XX|SPAD S.20bis]] ||<ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|37}}<ref>[http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1920/1920%20-%200256.html?tracked=1 "Speed Records in France"]. ''Flight'', 4 March 1920.</ref>
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|9 October 1920 || {{flagicon|France}} [[Bernard Barny de Romanet|Bernard de Romanet]] || 181.8 || 292.682 || rowspan="2" | [[Buc, Yvelines|Buc]], France ||<ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|37}}<ref>[http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1920/1920%20-%201088.html?tracked=1 "Meeting at Buc"]. ''Flight'', 14 October 1920, pp. 1090–1091.</ref>
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|10 October 1920 || rowspan="2" | {{flagicon|France}} Joseph Sadi-Lecointe || 184.3 || 296.694 || rowspan="2" | [[Nieuport-Delage NiD 29|Nieuport-Delage NiD 29V]]||<ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|33}}
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|20 October 1920 || 187.9 || 302.529 || Villacoublay, France ||<ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|33}}
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|4 November 1920 || {{flagicon|France}} Bernard de Romanet || 191.9 || 309.012|| [[SPAD S.XX]] || Buc, France ||<ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref>[http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1920/1920%20-%201164.html?tracked=1 "De Romanet Breaks Records"]. ''Flight'', 11 November 1920, p. 1166.</ref>
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| 12 December 1920 || rowspan="2" | {{flagicon|France}} Joseph Sadi-Lecointe || 194.4 || 313.043 || [[Nieuport-Delage NiD 29|Nieuport-Delage NiD 29V]]|| Villacoublay, France ||<ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="Munson" />{{rp|33}}
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| 26 September 1921 || 205.2 || 330.275 || [[Nieuport-Delage Sesquiplan]] || Ville Sauvage, France ||<ref name="Munson" />{{rp|39}}<ref>[http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1921/1921%20-%200710.html "Some Records Homologated"]. ''Flight'', 3 November 1921, p. 710.</ref>
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| 13 October 1922 || rowspan="2" | {{flagicon|United States}} [[Billy Mitchell]] || 222.88 || 358.836 || Curtiss R || Detroit, Michigan, US ||<ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref name="eighteen p75">''Flight'' 7 February 1924, p. 75.</ref>
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| 18 October 1922 || 224.28 || 360.93 || [[Curtiss R-6]] || Selfridge Field, Detroit, Michigan, US ||<ref name="Munson" />{{rp|41}}<ref name="Curtiss" />{{rp|232–3}}<ref>"[http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1923/1923%20-%200026.html American World's Speed Record Homologated]". ''Flight'', 11 January 1923, p. 26.</ref>
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| 15 February 1923 || {{flagicon|France}} Joseph Sadi-Lecointe || 232.91 || 375.00 || [[Nieuport-Delage NiD 42]]S||Istres, France ||<ref name="eighteen p75"/>
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| 29 March 1923 || {{flagicon|United States}} [[Russell Maughan|1st Lt. Russell L. Maughan]] || 236.587 || 380.74 || Curtiss R-6 || Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, US ||<ref name="Munson" />{{rp|41}}<ref name="Curtiss" />{{rp|233}}<ref>[http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1923/1923%20-%200356.html "Records Homologated"]. ''[[Flight International|Flight]]'', 28 June 1923, p. 356.</ref>
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| 2 November 1923 || {{flagicon|United States}} Lt. Harold J. Brow || 259.16 || 417.07 || rowspan="2" | [[Curtiss R2C-1]] || rowspan="2" | Mineola, New York, US ||<ref name="Munson" />{{rp|43}}<ref name="Curtiss" />{{rp|235}}
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| 4 November 1923 || {{flagicon|United States}} [[Alford J. Williams|Lt. Alford J. Williams]]|| 266.59 || 429.02 ||<ref name="Munson" />{{rp|43}}<ref name="Curtiss" />{{rp|235}}<ref>[http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1923/1923%20-%200776.html ''Flight'']. 27 December 1923, p.776.</ref>
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| 11 November 1924 || {{flagicon|France}} {{Ill|Florentin Bonnet|fr}} || 278.37 || 448.171 || [[Bernard SIMB V.2|Bernard-Ferbois V.2]] || ||<ref name="Cooper p619"/>
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| 4 November 1927 || rowspan="2" | {{flagicon|Kingdom of Italy}} [[Mario de Bernardi]] || 297.70 || 479.290 || [[Macchi M.52]] seaplane|| rowspan="2" | [[Venice]], Italy || Database ID 11828<ref name=FAI /><ref name="Cooper p619"/>
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| 30 March 1928 || 318.620 || 512.776 || [[Macchi M.52bis]] seaplane|| Database ID 11827<ref name=FAI /><ref>Robertson, F.A. de V. "[http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1928/1928%20-%201043.html The Attempt on the World's Speed Record]". ''Flight'', 8 November 1928, pp. 965–967.</ref>
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| style="color:gray" | August 1929 || style="color:gray" | {{flagicon|Kingdom of Italy}} [[Giuseppe Motta (pilot)|Giuseppe Motta]] || style="color:gray" | 362.0 || style="color:gray" | 582.6 || style="color:gray" | [[Macchi M.67]] seaplane || style="color:gray" | || style="color:gray" |Unofficial
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| 10 September 1929 || {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[George Stainforth|George H. Stainforth]] || 336.3 || 541.4 || [[Gloster VI]] seaplane|| rowspan="2" | [[Calshot]], UK || Database ID 11829<ref name=FAI /><ref>James 1971, p.188.</ref>
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| 12 September 1929 || {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[Augustus Orlebar]] || 357.7 || 575.5 || rowspan="2" | [[Supermarine S.6]] seaplane ||Database ID 11830<ref name=FAI /><ref>Andrews and Morgan 1987, p.194.</ref>
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| 13 September 1931 || {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} George H. Stainforth || 407.5 || 655.8 || [[Lee-on-the-Solent|Lee-on-the-Solent, UK]] || Database ID 11831<ref name=FAI /><ref>Andrews and Morgan 1987, p. 201.</ref>
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| 10 April 1933 || rowspan="2" | {{flagicon|Kingdom of Italy}} [[Francesco Agello]] || 423.6 || 682.078 || rowspan="2" | [[Macchi M.C.72]] seaplane || rowspan="2" |[[Desenzano del Garda]], Italy ||Database ID 11836<ref name=FAI /><ref name="Cooper p619"/>
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| 23 October 1934 || 440.5 || 709.209 || Database ID 4497, current piston-engined seaplane speed record.<ref name=FAI /><ref name="Cooper p619"/>
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| 13 September 1935|| {{flagicon|United States}} [[Howard Hughes]] || 354.4 || 567.12 || [[Hughes H-1 Racer]]|| [[Santa Ana, California|Santa Ana]], California, US|| FAI Database ID 8748<ref>[http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=8748] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314115908/http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=8748|date=14 March 2016}} FAI record No.8748</ref>
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| 11 November 1937 || {{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} Dr. [[Hermann Wurster]]|| 379.63 || 610.95 || [[Messerschmitt Bf 109]] V.13 || [[Augsburg]], Germany || FAI Database ID 8747<ref>[http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=8747] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314115920/http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=8747|date=14 March 2016}} FAI Record No.8747</ref>
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| 30 March 1939 || {{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Hans Dieterle]]|| 466.6 || 746.60 || [[Heinkel He 100]] V8 || [[Oranienburg]], Germany || FAI Database ID 8744<ref>[http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=8744] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314111653/http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=8744|date=14 March 2016}} FAI Record No.8744</ref>
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| 26 April 1939 || {{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Fritz Wendel]] || 469.220 || 755.138 || [[Messerschmitt Me 209]] V1 || Augsburg, Germany ||Piston-engined record [[Darryl Greenamyer|until 1969]]<ref>[http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=8743] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314112202/http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=8743|date=14 March 2016}} FAI Record No.8743</ref>
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| style="color:gray" | 2 October 1941 || style="color:gray" | {{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Heini Dittmar]] || style="color:gray" | 623.65 || style="color:gray" | 1,003.67 || style="color:gray" | [[Messerschmitt Me 163#Me 163A|Messerschmitt Me 163A]] "V4" || style="color:gray" | [[Peenemünde Airfield|Peenemünde-West, Germany]] || style="color:gray" | Rocket powered – [[World War II]] secret, not an Official FAI record but over the {{cvt|3|km}} FAI distance<ref name="Kasmann">Käsmann, Ferdinand C.W., Die schnellsten Jets der Welt, {{ISBN|3-925505-26-1}}, 1994</ref>{{rp|122}}<ref>[http://www.sportflug-noervenich.de/html/heini_dittmar.php Heini Dittmar] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080218141548/http://www.sportflug-noervenich.de/html/heini_dittmar.php |date=18 February 2008 }}</ref><ref>Wolfgang Späte, Der streng geheime Vogel Me 163 p.32,33 {{ISBN|3-89555-142-2}}, 1983</ref>
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| style="color:gray" | 1944 || style="color:gray" | {{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Heinz Herlitzius]]|| style="color:gray" | 624 || style="color:gray" | 1,004|| style="color:gray" | [[Messerschmitt Me 262]] S2|| style="color:gray" | [[Leipheim|Leipheim, Germany]] ||style="color:gray" | World War II secret, not an Official FAI record. Steep dive.<ref name="Kasmann" />{{rp|122}}
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| style="color:gray" | 6 July 1944 || style="color:gray" | {{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} Heini Dittmar || style="color:gray" | 702 || style="color:gray" | 1,130 || style="color:gray" | [[Messerschmitt Me 163#Later versions|Messerschmitt Me 163B]] "V18" || style="color:gray" | [[Lechfeld Air Base|Lagerlechfeld, Germany]] || style="color:gray" | Rocket powered – World War II secret, not an Official FAI record. Dive, details unknown.<ref name="Kasmann" />{{rp|122}}
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| 7 November 1945 || {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[Hugh Wilson (RAF officer)|H. J. Wilson]] || 606.4 || 975.9 || [[Gloster Meteor|Gloster Meteor F Mk.4]]|| [[Herne Bay, Kent|Herne Bay]], UK ||EE454 ''Britannia'', first official record post World War II.<ref name="Munson" />{{rp|107}}<ref name="Mason fighter p340">Mason 1992, p. 340.</ref>
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| 7 September 1946 || {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[Edward Mortlock Donaldson]] || 615.78 || 990.79 || [[Gloster Meteor|Gloster Meteor F Mk.4]]|| [[Littlehampton]], UK ||<ref name="Mason fighter p340"/> EE530, a long-span Mk 4.<ref name="Munson" />{{rp|107}}
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| 19 June 1947 || {{flagicon|United States}} Col. [[Albert Boyd]] || 623.74 || 1,003.60 || [[P-80 Shooting Star|Lockheed P-80R Shooting Star]] || rowspan="3" | [[Edwards Air Force Base|Muroc]] (Edwards AFB), California, US|| <ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-080123-063.pdf
| title = Milestones in Aerospace History at Edwards AFB
| access-date = 14 July 2008
| last = Young
| first = James O.
| year = 2007
| publisher = Air Force Flight Test Center History Office
| archive-date = 10 July 2008
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080710125541/http://www.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-080123-063.pdf
| url-status = dead
}}</ref>
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| 20 August 1947 || {{flagicon|United States}} Cmdr. Turner Caldwell || 640.663 || 1,031.049 || rowspan="2" | [[Douglas D-558-1 Skystreak]] ||First record flight to exceed secret October 1941 Me 163A V4 figure<ref name="Frnc Doug p438">Francillon 1979, p.438.</ref>
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| 25 August 1947 || {{flagicon|United States}} Major [[Marion Eugene Carl]] USMC || 650.796 || 1,047.356 ||<ref name="Frnc Doug p438"/>
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| style="color:gray" | 14 October 1947 || style="color:gray" | {{flagicon|United States}} [[Chuck Yeager]] || style="color:gray" | 670.0 || style="color:gray" | 1,078 || style="color:gray" | [[Bell X-1]] ([[List of X-1 flights#XS-1 flights|flight #50]]) || style="color:gray" | Muroc, California, US || style="color:gray" | Rocket powered – [[Cold War]] secret, not an official FAI C-1 record
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| style="color:gray" | 6 November 1947 || style="color:gray" | {{flagicon|United States}} Chuck Yeager || style="color:gray" | 891.0 || style="color:gray" | 1,434 || style="color:gray" | Bell X-1 ([[List of X-1 flights#XS-1 flights|flight #58]]) || style="color:gray" | Muroc, California, US || style="color:gray" | Rocket powered – Cold War secret, not an official FAI C-1 record, first to exceed secret July 1944 Me 163B V18 record
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| 15 September 1948 || {{flagicon|United States}} Maj. [[Richard L. Johnson]], USF || 670.84 || 1,079.6 || [[F-86 Sabre|North American F-86A-3 Sabre]] || [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]], Ohio, US ||<ref name="Cooper p619"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Jackson, Robert|title=F-86 Sabre: The Operational Record|publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press|year=1994}}</ref>
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| 18 November 1952 || {{flagicon|United States}} [[J. Slade Nash]]|| 698.505 || 1,124.13 || [[F-86D Sabre|North American F-86D Sabre]] || [[Salton Sea]], California, US ||<ref name="Allward p24">Allward 1978, p. 24.</ref>
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| 16 July 1953 || {{flagicon|United States}} William Barnes || 715.745 || 1,151.88 || [[North American F-86D Sabre]]|| Salton Sea, California, US ||<ref name="Allward p24-5">Allward 1978, pp. 24–25.</ref>
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| 7 September 1953 || {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[Neville Duke]] || 727.6 || 1,171 || [[Hawker Hunter|Hawker Hunter Mk.3]] || Littlehampton, UK ||<ref name="Mason fighter p370">Mason 1992, p. 370.</ref>
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| 26 September 1953 || {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[Mike Lithgow]] || 735.7 || 1,184 || [[Supermarine Swift|Supermarine Swift F4]] || Castel Idris, [[Tripoli, Libya]] ||<ref name="Mason fighter p366">Mason 1992, p. 366.</ref>
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| 3 October 1953 || {{flagicon|United States}} [[James B. Verdin]], US Navy || 752.9 || 1,211.5 || [[F4D Skyray|Douglas F4D Skyray]]|| Salton Sea, California, US ||<ref name="Frnc Doug p476">Francillon 1979, p.476.</ref>
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| 29 October 1953 || {{flagicon|United States}} [[Frank K. Everest]] USAF || 755.1 || 1,215.3 || [[North American F-100 Super Sabre]]|| Salton Sea, California, US ||
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| 20 August 1955 || {{flagicon|United States}} [[Horace A. Hanes]]|| 822.1 || 1,323 || [[North American F-100 Super Sabre|North American F-100C Super Sabre]]|| [[Palmdale, California|Palmdale]], California, US ||
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| 10 March 1956 || {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[Peter Twiss]] || 1,132 || 1,822 || [[Fairey Delta 2]] || [[Chichester]], UK ||<ref name="Taylor Fairey p432">Taylor 1974, p. 432.</ref>
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|12 December 1957 || {{flagicon|United States}} [[USAF]] || 1,207.6 || 1,943.5 || [[F-101 Voodoo#Variants|McDonnell F-101A Voodoo]] || rowspan="2" | Muroc, California, US ||<ref name="Frnc Doug p544">Francillon 1979, p. 544.</ref>
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|16 May 1958 || {{flagicon|United States}} Capt. Walt Wayne Irwin, USF || 1,404.012 || 2,259.538 ||[[F-104 Starfighter#Variants|Lockheed YF-104A Starfighter]] ||<ref name="Munson" />{{rp|147}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fai.org/record/9063|title=FAI Record No.9063|date=10 October 2017 }}</ref>
|-
| 5 October 1959 || {{flagicon|France}} Maj. [[André Turcat]] || 1,441.6 || 2,320 || [[Nord 1500 Griffon]] || France ||<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gaillard|first1=Pierre|title=Les oubliés du Salon de l'Aeronautique (5): les experimentaux |journal=Le Fana de l'Aviation |date=August 1985 |issue=189 |pages=35–37 |issn=0757-4169 |language=fr|trans-title=The Forgotten Ones of the Paris Air Show, Part 5: The Experimental Ones}}</ref>
|-
| 31 October 1959 || {{flagicon|USSR}} Col. [[Georgi Mosolov]] || 1,484 || 2,388 || [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21|Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-6/3 or Ye-66]] || USSR ||<ref name="MiG p298,0">Belyakov and Marmain 1994, pp. 298, 300.</ref>
|-
| 15 December 1959 || {{flagicon|United States}} Maj. Joseph Rogers, USAF || 1,525.9 || 2,455.7 || [[Convair F-106 Delta Dart]] || Muroc, California, US ||The record should have gone to civilian (former military) pilot [[Charles E. Myers|Charles Myers]], who flew a Delta Dart at {{convert|1544|mph|disp=flip}} in 1959, but Cold War pressures dictated that the award go to an active-military pilot.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Taylor|first1=Michael|title=Obituary Colonel Joseph 'Joe' W. Rogers, USF (Ret) Record-breaking Famed Aviator Dies at Age 81|url=http://www.f-106deltadart.com/speedrecord_joe_rogers.htm| publisher= F-106 Delta Dart – The Ultimate Interceptor| access-date=28 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| last1=Grazier| first1=Dan| title=POGO Remembers Chuck Myers, "Fighter Mafia" Veteran| url=http://www.pogo.org/straus/issues/military-people-and-ideas/2016/pogo-remembers-chuck-myers.html| website=www.POGO.org |access-date=28 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| last1=Samuel| first1=Wolfgang| title=In Defense of Freedom: Stories of Courage and Sacrifice of World War II Army Air Forces Flyers|date=2015|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-62846-217-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-YzdBwAAQBAJ}}</ref>
|-
| 22 November 1961 || {{flagicon|United States}} Robert B. Robinson, US Navy || 1,606.3 || 2,585.1 || [[F-4 Phantom II|McDonnell-Douglas F4H-1F Phantom II]] || Muroc, California, US ||<ref name="Munson" />{{rp|165}}<ref name="Frnc Doug p572">Francillon 1979, p. 572.</ref>
|-
| 7 July 1962 || {{flagicon|USSR}} Col. Georgi Mosolov || 1,665.9 || 2,681 || [[Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-166|Mikoyan Gurevich Ye-166]]|| USSR ||<ref name="Janes 65 p346">Taylor 1965, p. 346.</ref><ref name="MiG p274-5">Belyakov and Marmain 1994, pp. 274–275.</ref> Name adopted for record attempt, a version of a [[Ye-152]] a.k.a. E-166.<ref name="Munson" />{{rp|179}}
|-
| 1 May 1965 || {{flagicon|United States}} [[Robert L. Stephens]]<br/>and Daniel Andre || 2,070.1 || 3,331.5 || [[Lockheed YF-12|Lockheed YF-12A]] || Muroc, California, US ||<ref name="Janes 76 p72">Taylor 1976, p. 72.</ref>
|-
| 28 July 1976 || {{flagicon|United States}} Capt. [[Eldon W. Joersz]] (P) and<br/> Maj. George T. Morgan Jr. (RSO) || 2,193.2 || 3,529.6 || [[Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird]] #61-7958|| [[Beale AFB]], US ||<ref name="Janes 88 p[51]">Taylor 1988, p. [51].</ref>
|}


==Official records versus unofficial==
The [[SR-71|SR-71 "Blackbird"]] is usually considered to have been the fastest "conventional" aircraft, with a sustained top speed of 3,529.56 km/h (2,188 mph). It was a manned aircraft powered by air-breathing engines, and was capable of taking off and landing unassisted on conventional runways.
The [[Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird]] holds the official Air Speed Record for a crewed [[airbreathing jet engine]] aircraft with a speed of {{cvt|3530|km/h|mph}}. The record was set on 28 July 1976 by [[Eldon W. Joersz]] and George T. Morgan Jr. near Beale Air Force Base, [[California]], [[United States|USA]]. It was able to take off and land unassisted on conventional runways.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://records.fai.org/general_aviation/current.asp?id1=21&id2=4|title=Current air speed record|access-date=18 October 2006|url-status= dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927002329/http://records.fai.org/general_aviation/current.asp?id1=21&id2=4|archive-date=27 September 2007|df=dmy-all}}</ref> SR-71 pilot [[Brian Shul]] claimed in ''The Untouchables'' that he flew in excess of [[Mach number|Mach]] 3.5 on 15 April 1986, over [[Libya]], in order to avoid a [[missile]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Shul|first=Brian|title=The Untouchables|year=1994|publisher=Mach One|isbn=0929823125|page=173}}</ref>


Although the official record for fastest piston-engined aeroplane in level flight was held by a [[Grumman F8F Bearcat]], the ''Rare Bear'', with a speed of {{cvt|528.31|mph|disp=flip}}, the unofficial record for fastest piston-engined aeroplane in level flight is held by a British [[Hawker Sea Fury]] at {{cvt|547|mph|disp=flip}}. Both were demilitarised and modified fighters, while the fastest stock (original, factory-built) piston-engined aeroplane was unofficially the [[Supermarine Spiteful]] F Mk 16, which "achieved a speed of 494m.p.h. at 28,500ft during official tests at Boscombe Down" in level flight.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-03-06 |title=seafire {{!}} spitfire {{!}} 1953 {{!}} 1321 {{!}} Flight Archive |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1953/1953%20-%201321.html |access-date=2023-04-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306205558/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1953/1953%20-%201321.html |archive-date=6 March 2016 }}</ref> The unofficial record for fastest piston-engined aeroplane (not in level flight) is held by a [[Supermarine Spitfire]] Mk.XIX, which was calculated to have achieved a speed of {{cvt|690|mph|disp=flip}} in a dive on 5 February 1952.
==Timeline==
Records as recognised by FAI and predecessor organizations.


The last new speed record ratified before the outbreak of [[World War II]] was set on 26 April 1939 with a [[Messerschmitt Me 209|Me 209]] V1, at {{cvt|755|km/h}}. The chaos and secrecy of World War II meant that new speed breakthroughs were neither publicized nor ratified. In October 1941, an unofficial speed record of {{cvt|1004|km/h}} was secretly set by a [[Messerschmitt Me 163#Me 163A|Messerschmitt Me 163A]] "V4" rocket aircraft. Continued research during the war extended the secret, unofficial speed record to {{cvt|1130|km/h}} by July 1944, achieved by a [[Messerschmitt Me 163#Later versions|Messerschmitt Me 163B]] "V18". The first new official record in the post-war period was achieved by a [[Gloster Meteor]] F Mk.4 in November 1945, at {{cvt|606|mph|disp=flip}}. The first aircraft to exceed the unofficial October 1941 record of the Me 163A V4 was the [[Douglas D-558-1 Skystreak]], which achieved {{cvt|641|mph|disp=flip}} in August 1947. The July 1944 unofficial record of the Me 163B V18 was officially surpassed in November 1947, when [[Chuck Yeager]] flew the [[Bell X-1]] to {{cvt|891|mph|disp=flip}}.


The official speed record for a [[seaplane]] moved by piston engine is {{cvt|709.209|km/h}}, which attained on 24 October 1934, by [[Francesco Agello]] in the [[Macchi M.C.72|Macchi-Castoldi M.C.72]] seaplane ("idrocorsa") and it remains the current record.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aeronautica.difesa.it/archiviovetrine_news/Pagine/Agelloprimatovelocita.aspx|title=Agello Airspeed record, Air Force portal|access-date=31 August 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304033802/http://www.aeronautica.difesa.it/archiviovetrine_news/Pagine/Agelloprimatovelocita.aspx|archive-date=4 March 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref> It was equipped with the [[Fiat AS.6]] engine (version 1934) developing a power of {{cvt|3100|hp|kW|order=flip}} at 3,300 rpm, with coaxial counter-rotating propellers. The original record holding Macchi-Castoldi M.C.72 MM.181 seaplane is at the Air Force Museum at [[Vigna di Valle]] in Italy.
*1903 [[Wilbur Wright]] at 9.8 miles per hour
*1921 [[Bert Acosta]] at 176.9 miles per hour
*1931 George H. Stainforth at 407.5 mph (655.8 km/h) in the [[Supermarine S6B]] seaplane, [[Lee-on-Solent]], GB
*1945 H J Wilson at 606.38 mph in [[Gloster Meteor]] F Mk4, Herne Bay, GB
*1947 Captain [[Chuck Yeager|Charles "Chuck" Yeager]] at 670 mph in [[Bell X-1]] (first confirmed supersonic flight).
*1953 Neville Duke at 727.63 mph in [[Hawker Hunter]] F Mk3 - Littlehampton, GB


==Other air speed records==
From this point records are set at alitude and not sea level.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
*1955 Horace A Hanes 822.13 mph (first supersonic for a jet) in [[F-100 Super Sabre
|-
|North American F-100C Super Sabre]], Palmdale, USA
! rowspan="2" width=13%| Date
*1956 [[Peter Twiss]] 1132.13 mph in [[Fairey Delta Two]], Chichester, GB
! rowspan="2" | Pilot
*1965 Robert L Stephens & Daniel Andre 2,070.10 mph in Lockheed YF-12A, Edwards AFB, USA
! colspan="2" | Airspeed
*1967 [[X-15]] at 4,510 miles per hour (7,274 km/h)
! rowspan="2" | Aircraft
*1986 [[Westland Lynx]] set helicopter world speed record of 400.87 km/h (249.09 mp/h)
! rowspan="2" | Comments
*2004 NASA's X-43A hypersonic aircraft at 4,780mph (seven times the speed of sound)
|-
!mph
!km/h
|-
| 2 October 1985 || Holger Rochelt || 27.54 || 44.32 || [[Musculair|Musculair 2]] || Fastest human-powered aircraft<ref>{{cite web|title=Human-powered aeroplane speed record over a closed circuit|date=10 October 2017 |url=http://www.fai.org/record/389|publisher=[[Fédération Aéronautique Internationale|FAI]]|access-date=23 June 2020}}</ref>
|-
|22 December 2006 || [[Klaus Ohlmann]] & Matias Garcia Mazzaro || 190.6 ||306.8 || [[Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-4|Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-4DM]] || Fastest (non-powered) [[glider (sailplane)|glider]] over 500&nbsp;km<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 2006|title=Open Class Gliders: Speed over an out-and-return course of 500 km|url=http://www.fai.org/record/14392}}</ref>
|-
| 11 August 1986 || Trevor Egginton || 249 || 400.87 || [[Westland Lynx]] || Fastest helicopter<ref name="sbac-record">{{cite web |url=http://www.sbac.co.uk/community/cms/content/preview/news_item_view.asp?i=12405&t=0 |title=Lynx – The World's Fastest Helicopter 20 Years On |publisher=[[Society of British Aerospace Companies|SBAC]] |date=11 August 2006 |access-date=30 April 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100819024635/http://www.sbac.co.uk/community/cms/content/preview/news_item_view.asp?i=12405&t=0 |archive-date=19 August 2010 }}</ref><ref name=FAI_Absolute>"[http://www.fai.org/record/11659 Rotorcraft Absolute: Speed over a straight 15/25 km course]". Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). Note search under E-1 Helicopters and "Speed over a straight 15/25 km course". Accessed: 26 April 2014.</ref><ref name="hmfriends">{{cite web|url=http://www.hmfriends.org.uk/glynxbig.htm |title=Westland Lynx AH.Mk1, G-LYNX/ZB500 |publisher= Friends of The Helicopter Museum |access-date=30 April 2009}}</ref>
|-
| 31 December 1988 || L.P. Krantov || 258.8 || 415 || [[Tupolev Tu-134|Tupolev Tu-134A]] || Highest landing speed for a civil aircraft<ref>Л. Л. Селяков. [http://www.svavia.ru/info/lib/sel_chsm13.html "Человек, среда, машина"]. Самолет Ту-134А №65011.</ref>
|-
| 11 June 2013 || Hervé Jammayrac || 293 || 472 || [[Eurocopter X3]] || Fastest propeller [[compound helicopter]]<ref>{{cite magazine |author = Jason Paur |title = X3 Helicopter Sets Speed Record at Nearly 300 MPH |magazine = Wired |url = https://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/06/eurocopter-x3-speed-record/ |access-date= 27 February 2014 }}</ref>
|-
| 15 September 2010 || Kevin Bredenbeck || 299 || 481 || [[Sikorsky X2]] || Fastest compound helicopter, shallow dive (unofficial)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/09/15/347379/sikorsky-x2-hits-250kt-goal.html |title=Sikorsky X2 hits 250kt goal |author= Croft, John |publisher = Flight International |date= 15 September 2010 |access-date=16 September 2010 }}</ref>
|-
| 19 March 1989 || Unknown pilot || 316 || 509 || [[Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey]]<ref>Wall, Robert. [http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=defense&id=news/asd/2010/06/24/02.xml&headline=U.S.%20Marines%20See%20MV-22%20Improvements "U.S. Marines See MV-22 Improvements."]{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} ''Aviation Week'', 24 June 2010.</ref><ref>Norton, Bill. ''Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey, Tiltrotor Tactical Transport'', page 111. Earl Shilton, Leicester, UK: Midland Publishing, 2004. {{ISBN|1-85780-165-2}}.</ref> || [[Tiltrotor]]
|-
| 15 April 1969 || Unknown pilot || 316 || 509 || [[Bell 533]] || Compound jet helicopter<ref>Robb, Raymond L. (2006). ''[http://www.vtol.org/pdf/summer06robb.pdf Hybrid helicopters: Compounding the quest for speed] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060927042104/http://www.vtol.org/pdf/summer06robb.pdf |date=27 September 2006 }}'', page 43. Vertiflite, Summer 2006. [[American Helicopter Society]]. Size: 25 pages in 2MB</ref><ref>Spenser, Jay P. "Bell Helicopter". ''Whirlybirds, A History of the U.S. Helicopter Pioneers'', p. 274. University of Washington Press, 1998. {{ISBN|0-295-98058-3}}.</ref>
|-
| 19 November 2021 || Steve Jones || 345.4 || 555.9 || [[Rolls-Royce ACCEL|Rolls-Royce Accel ‘Spirit of Innovation’]] || Fastest electric-only aeroplane<ref>{{Cite news|date=2022-01-21|title=Rolls-Royce all-electric aircraft breaks world records|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-60068786|access-date=2022-01-27}}</ref>
|-
|6 February 2003
|Joseph J. Ritchie, [[Steve Fossett]]
|576.3
|927.4
|[[Piaggio P.180 Avanti]]
|[[Fastest propeller-driven aircraft]] of any type.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-10-10 |title=Joseph J. Ritchie (USA) (7627) {{!}} World Air Sports Federation |url=https://www.fai.org/record/7627 |access-date=2024-01-13 |website=www.fai.org |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| 2 September 2017 || Steve Hinton Jr. || 531.53 || 855.41 || [[North American P-51 Mustang|P-51]] [[Voodoo (aircraft)|"Voodoo"]] || Fastest straight-line piston-engined aircraft in level flight<ref>{{cite news |url= http://aviationweek.com/nbaa-2017/aviation-partners-sets-world-record-without-winglets |title= Aviation Partners Sets World Record – Without Winglets |date= 10 October 2017 |author= John Morris |work= Aviation Week Network}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Measures |first1=Harry |title=Steve Hinton, Jr breaks Absolute Propeller-Driven Piston Powered 3-Km speed record |url=http://vintageaviationecho.com/steve-o-prop-record/ |website=The Vintage Aviation Echo |date=3 September 2017 |access-date=9 August 2018}}</ref>


|-
From [http://www.speedrecordclub.com/records/outair.htm Record List].
| 9 April 1960 || Ivan Sukhomlin, Konstantin Sapielkine || 545.07 || 877.21 || [[Tupolev Tu-114]] || Fastest propeller-driven airliner-size aircraft, per [[Fédération Aéronautique Internationale|FAI]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-10-10 |title=Ivan Soukhomline (URS) (3664) {{!}} World Air Sports Federation |url=https://www.fai.org/record/3664 |access-date=2024-01-13 |website=www.fai.org |language=en}}</ref>
Both [[Tupolev Tu-116|Tu-116]] and [[Tupolev Tu-142|Tu-142]] claim higher maximum speeds.
|-
| 5 February 1952 || Flight Lieutenant [[Edward Powles]] || 690 || 1,110.447 || [[Supermarine Spitfire]] PR.XIX PS852|| Reached (Mach 0.96) during an emergency dive while carrying out spying flights over China, the highest speed ever recorded for a piston-engined aircraft (though not in level flight).<ref>[http://planesandpilotsofww2.totalh.net/Gustin/spit1946.html?i=1 Spitfire Timeline]</ref>
|-
| 14 October 2012 || [[Felix Baumgartner]] || 844 || 1,358 || None (jumped from a [[Red Bull Stratos|helium balloon gondola]]) || Fastest unpowered descent of a human<ref>"[http://www.fai.org/records/news-of-records/37017-baumgartners-records-ratified-by-fai Baumgartner's Records Ratified by FAI !]" [http://www.fai.org/record/16669 Record] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215231303/http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=16669 |date=15 December 2013 }} ''FAI'', 14 October 2012. Accessed: 18 November 2013.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.redbullstratos.com/science/aeronautical-records/|title = Governing Body 'FAI' Officially Confirms Red Bull Stratos World Records | access-date =3 December 2013}}</ref>
|-

| 7 February 1996 || Captain Leslie Scott || 1,249 || 2,010 || [[Concorde]] || Fastest passenger plane on a regular route<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/60at60/2015/8/1996-fastest-flight-across-the-atlantic-in-a-commercial-aircraft-392882/|title = 1996: Fastest Flight Across the Atlantic in a Commercial Aircraft |date = 18 August 2015 | access-date =1 June 2021}}</ref>
|-

| 3 October 1967 ||[[William Joseph Knight|William 'Pete' Knight]]|| 4,519 || 7,274 || [[North American X-15]] || [[Rocket plane]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.flyfighterjet.com/jetflights/fastest-plane-in-the-world.html|title=Fastest Plane in the World|work=FlyFighterJet.com - Fly a Jet, Fighter Jet Rides in Supersonic MiG-29|access-date=24 April 2015}}</ref>
|-
| 16 November 2004 || Uncrewed || 6,755|| 10,870 || [[NASA X-43]]A || Air-launched [[hypersonic]] [[scramjet]]; fastest free-flying air-breathing vehicle<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/fastest-aircraft-air-breathing-engine |title= Fastest aircraft, air-breathing engine: X-43 |date= 16 Nov 2004 |work= Guinness World Records}}</ref>
|-
|22 April 2010 || Uncrewed || 13,201 ||21,245 || [[HTV-2 Falcon]] || Air-launched hypersonic [[glider (aircraft)|glider]]; fastest uncrewed aerial vehicle<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lockheedmartin.co.uk/us/products/falcon-htv-2.html|title=Falcon HTV-2|access-date=24 April 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504120242/http://www.lockheedmartin.co.uk/us/products/falcon-htv-2.html|archive-date=4 May 2016}}</ref>
|-
| 14 November 1981|| [[Joe H. Engle]] || 17,500 || 28,000 || [[Space Shuttle Columbia]] || Fastest manually controlled flight in atmosphere during [[atmospheric reentry]] of [[STS-2]] mission.
|-
|15 November 1988
|Uncrewed
|18,019
|29,000
|[[Buran (spacecraft)|Buran]]
|The fastest unmanned (but capable of carrying up to 8-10 people) spaceplane ever built {{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}, weighing 100 tons or more.
|}

Flying between any two airports allow a large number of [[Combinatorics|combinations]], so setting a speed record ("speed over a recognised course") is fairly easy with an [[General aviation|ordinary aircraft]], although there are many administrative requirements for recognition.<ref name=fmRecord>{{cite web|url=http://www.flyingmag.com/technique/proficiency/any-pilot-can-set-speed-record |title=Any Pilot Can Set a Speed Record|work=Flying Magazine |date=30 September 2015 |access-date=4 October 2015 }}</ref><ref>"[http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=17439 FAI Record ID #17439 - Albuquerque - Amarillo, C-1b (Landplanes: take off weight 500 to 1000 kg)]{{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}" ''FAI'' Record date 8 April 2015. Accessed: 4 October 2015.</ref><ref>[https://naa.aero/applications-downloads/records-downloads Records Downloads], NAA.</ref>


==See also==
==See also==
* [[Transcontinental airspeed record]]
* [[Flight altitude record]]
* [[Land speed record]]
* [[Fastest propeller-driven aircraft]]
* [[Land speed record for railed vehicles]]
* [[List of vehicle speed records]]
* [[Lockheed X-7]] - Mach 4.31 (2,881&nbsp;mph) in the 1950s
* [[Water speed record]]
* [[Underwater speed record]]
* [[Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet]]
* [[World record]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061206205339/http://records.fai.org/general_aviation/ Web site] of the [[Fédération Aéronautique Internationale]] (FAI)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090303203339/http://speedrecordclub.com/outair.php Speed records time line]
* [http://speedrecordclub.com/ Speed Record Club] - The Speed Record Club seeks to promote an informed and educated enthusiast identity, reporting accurately and impartially to the best of its ability on record-breaking engineering, events, attempts and history.
* [http://www.groundspeedrecords.com Ground Speed Records] - Breakdown of speed records by aircraft type

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The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is the current record-holder for a crewed airbreathing jet aircraft.

An air speed record is the highest airspeed attained by an aircraft of a particular class. The rules for all official aviation records are defined by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI),[1] which also ratifies any claims. Speed records are divided into a number of classes with sub-divisions. There are three classes of aircraft: landplanes, seaplanes, and amphibians, and within these classes there are records for aircraft in a number of weight categories. There are still further subdivisions for piston-engined, turbojet, turboprop, and rocket-engined aircraft. Within each of these groups, records are defined for speed over a straight course and for closed circuits of various sizes carrying various payloads.

Timeline

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Flight speed records over time, taken from the table below.

Gray text indicates unofficial records, including unconfirmed or unpublicized war secrets.

Date Pilot Airspeed Location Notes
mph km/h Aircraft
17 December 1903 United States Wilbur Wright 6.82 10.98 Wright Flyer Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, US This figure is groundspeed, not airspeed. The Wrights' first flight covered just over 120 ft (37 m) and about 12 seconds into a gusty wind. The Wrights estimated airspeed at 31 mph (50 km/h).
5 October 1904 37.85 60.23 Wright Flyer III Huffman Prairie, Ohio, US
12 November 1906 Brazil Alberto Santos-Dumont 25.65 41.292 Santos-Dumont 14-bis Bagatelle Castle, Paris, France First officially recognized airspeed record.[2][3]: 7 
26 October 1907 France Henry Farman 32.73 52.700 Voisin-Farman I Issy-les-Moulineaux, France [2][3]: 9 
25 May 1909 France Paul Tissandier 34.04 54.810 Wright Model A Pau, France [2][3]: 11 
23 August 1909 United States Glenn Curtiss 44.367 69.821 Curtiss No. 2 Reims, France 1909 Gordon Bennett Cup.[2][4]: 37–38 
24 August 1909 France Louis Blériot 46.160 74.318 Blériot XI [2][3]: 13 
28 August 1909 47.823 76.995 [2][3]: 13 
23 April 1910 France Hubert Latham 48.186 77.579 Antoinette VII Nice, France [2][3]: 18 
10 July 1910 France Léon Morane 66.154 106.508 Blériot Reims, France [2][3]: 13 
29 October 1910 France Alfred Leblanc 68.171 109.756 Blériot XI New York, New York, US [2][3]: 13 
12 April 1911 69.420 111.801 Blériot Pau, France [2][3]: 14 
11 May 1911 France Édouard Nieuport 73.385 119.760 Nieuport IIN Châlons, France [2][3]: 25 
12 June 1911 France Alfred Leblanc 77.640 125.000 Blériot [2]
16 June 1911 France Édouard Nieuport 80.781 130.057 Nieuport IIN Châlons, France [2][3]: 25 
21 June 1911 82.693 133.136 [2][3]: 25 
13 January 1912 France Jules Védrines 87.68 145.161 Deperdussin Monocoque Pau, France [2][3]: 27 
22 February 1912 100.18 161.290 [2][3]: 27 
29 February 1912 100.90 162.454 [2][3]: 27 
1 March 1912 103.62 166.821 [2][3]: 27 
2 March 1912 104.29 167.910 [2][3]: 27 
13 July 1912 106.07 170.777 Reims, France [2][3]: 27 
9 September 1912 108.14 174.100 Chicago, Illinois, US [2][3]: 27 
17 June 1913 France Maurice Prévost 111.69 179.820 Reims, France [2][3]: 31 
27 September 1913 119.19 191.897 [2][3]: 31 
29 September 1913 126.61 203.850 [2][3]: 31 
1914 United Kingdom Norman Spratt 134.5 216.5 Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.4 Unofficial
August 1918 United States Roland Rohlfs 163 262.3 Curtiss Wasp Not officially recognised.[4]: 140 
1919 France Joseph Sadi-Lecointe 191.1 307.5 Nieuport-Delage NiD 29V Not officially recognised.
7 February 1920 France Joseph Sadi-Lecointe 171.0 275.264 Nieuport-Delage NiD 29V Villacoublay, France. [5] First official record post World War 1.[2][3]: 33 
28 February 1920 France Jean Casale 176.1 283.464 SPAD S.20bis [2][3]: 37 [6]
9 October 1920 France Bernard de Romanet 181.8 292.682 Buc, France [2][3]: 37 [7]
10 October 1920 France Joseph Sadi-Lecointe 184.3 296.694 Nieuport-Delage NiD 29V [2][3]: 33 
20 October 1920 187.9 302.529 Villacoublay, France [2][3]: 33 
4 November 1920 France Bernard de Romanet 191.9 309.012 SPAD S.XX Buc, France [2][8]
12 December 1920 France Joseph Sadi-Lecointe 194.4 313.043 Nieuport-Delage NiD 29V Villacoublay, France [2][3]: 33 
26 September 1921 205.2 330.275 Nieuport-Delage Sesquiplan Ville Sauvage, France [3]: 39 [9]
13 October 1922 United States Billy Mitchell 222.88 358.836 Curtiss R Detroit, Michigan, US [2][10]
18 October 1922 224.28 360.93 Curtiss R-6 Selfridge Field, Detroit, Michigan, US [3]: 41 [4]: 232–3 [11]
15 February 1923 France Joseph Sadi-Lecointe 232.91 375.00 Nieuport-Delage NiD 42S Istres, France [10]
29 March 1923 United States 1st Lt. Russell L. Maughan 236.587 380.74 Curtiss R-6 Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, US [3]: 41 [4]: 233 [12]
2 November 1923 United States Lt. Harold J. Brow 259.16 417.07 Curtiss R2C-1 Mineola, New York, US [3]: 43 [4]: 235 
4 November 1923 United States Lt. Alford J. Williams 266.59 429.02 [3]: 43 [4]: 235 [13]
11 November 1924 France Florentin Bonnet [fr] 278.37 448.171 Bernard-Ferbois V.2 [2]
4 November 1927 Kingdom of Italy Mario de Bernardi 297.70 479.290 Macchi M.52 seaplane Venice, Italy Database ID 11828[1][2]
30 March 1928 318.620 512.776 Macchi M.52bis seaplane Database ID 11827[1][14]
August 1929 Kingdom of Italy Giuseppe Motta 362.0 582.6 Macchi M.67 seaplane Unofficial
10 September 1929 United Kingdom George H. Stainforth 336.3 541.4 Gloster VI seaplane Calshot, UK Database ID 11829[1][15]
12 September 1929 United Kingdom Augustus Orlebar 357.7 575.5 Supermarine S.6 seaplane Database ID 11830[1][16]
13 September 1931 United Kingdom George H. Stainforth 407.5 655.8 Lee-on-the-Solent, UK Database ID 11831[1][17]
10 April 1933 Kingdom of Italy Francesco Agello 423.6 682.078 Macchi M.C.72 seaplane Desenzano del Garda, Italy Database ID 11836[1][2]
23 October 1934 440.5 709.209 Database ID 4497, current piston-engined seaplane speed record.[1][2]
13 September 1935 United States Howard Hughes 354.4 567.12 Hughes H-1 Racer Santa Ana, California, US FAI Database ID 8748[18]
11 November 1937 Nazi Germany Dr. Hermann Wurster 379.63 610.95 Messerschmitt Bf 109 V.13 Augsburg, Germany FAI Database ID 8747[19]
30 March 1939 Nazi Germany Hans Dieterle 466.6 746.60 Heinkel He 100 V8 Oranienburg, Germany FAI Database ID 8744[20]
26 April 1939 Nazi Germany Fritz Wendel 469.220 755.138 Messerschmitt Me 209 V1 Augsburg, Germany Piston-engined record until 1969[21]
2 October 1941 Nazi Germany Heini Dittmar 623.65 1,003.67 Messerschmitt Me 163A "V4" Peenemünde-West, Germany Rocket powered – World War II secret, not an Official FAI record but over the 3 km (1.9 mi) FAI distance[22]: 122 [23][24]
1944 Nazi Germany Heinz Herlitzius 624 1,004 Messerschmitt Me 262 S2 Leipheim, Germany World War II secret, not an Official FAI record. Steep dive.[22]: 122 
6 July 1944 Nazi Germany Heini Dittmar 702 1,130 Messerschmitt Me 163B "V18" Lagerlechfeld, Germany Rocket powered – World War II secret, not an Official FAI record. Dive, details unknown.[22]: 122 
7 November 1945 United Kingdom H. J. Wilson 606.4 975.9 Gloster Meteor F Mk.4 Herne Bay, UK EE454 Britannia, first official record post World War II.[3]: 107 [25]
7 September 1946 United Kingdom Edward Mortlock Donaldson 615.78 990.79 Gloster Meteor F Mk.4 Littlehampton, UK [25] EE530, a long-span Mk 4.[3]: 107 
19 June 1947 United States Col. Albert Boyd 623.74 1,003.60 Lockheed P-80R Shooting Star Muroc (Edwards AFB), California, US [26]
20 August 1947 United States Cmdr. Turner Caldwell 640.663 1,031.049 Douglas D-558-1 Skystreak First record flight to exceed secret October 1941 Me 163A V4 figure[27]
25 August 1947 United States Major Marion Eugene Carl USMC 650.796 1,047.356 [27]
14 October 1947 United States Chuck Yeager 670.0 1,078 Bell X-1 (flight #50) Muroc, California, US Rocket powered – Cold War secret, not an official FAI C-1 record
6 November 1947 United States Chuck Yeager 891.0 1,434 Bell X-1 (flight #58) Muroc, California, US Rocket powered – Cold War secret, not an official FAI C-1 record, first to exceed secret July 1944 Me 163B V18 record
15 September 1948 United States Maj. Richard L. Johnson, USF 670.84 1,079.6 North American F-86A-3 Sabre Cleveland, Ohio, US [2][28]
18 November 1952 United States J. Slade Nash 698.505 1,124.13 North American F-86D Sabre Salton Sea, California, US [29]
16 July 1953 United States William Barnes 715.745 1,151.88 North American F-86D Sabre Salton Sea, California, US [30]
7 September 1953 United Kingdom Neville Duke 727.6 1,171 Hawker Hunter Mk.3 Littlehampton, UK [31]
26 September 1953 United Kingdom Mike Lithgow 735.7 1,184 Supermarine Swift F4 Castel Idris, Tripoli, Libya [32]
3 October 1953 United States James B. Verdin, US Navy 752.9 1,211.5 Douglas F4D Skyray Salton Sea, California, US [33]
29 October 1953 United States Frank K. Everest USAF 755.1 1,215.3 North American F-100 Super Sabre Salton Sea, California, US
20 August 1955 United States Horace A. Hanes 822.1 1,323 North American F-100C Super Sabre Palmdale, California, US
10 March 1956 United Kingdom Peter Twiss 1,132 1,822 Fairey Delta 2 Chichester, UK [34]
12 December 1957 United States USAF 1,207.6 1,943.5 McDonnell F-101A Voodoo Muroc, California, US [35]
16 May 1958 United States Capt. Walt Wayne Irwin, USF 1,404.012 2,259.538 Lockheed YF-104A Starfighter [3]: 147 [36]
5 October 1959 France Maj. André Turcat 1,441.6 2,320 Nord 1500 Griffon France [37]
31 October 1959 Soviet Union Col. Georgi Mosolov 1,484 2,388 Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-6/3 or Ye-66 USSR [38]
15 December 1959 United States Maj. Joseph Rogers, USAF 1,525.9 2,455.7 Convair F-106 Delta Dart Muroc, California, US The record should have gone to civilian (former military) pilot Charles Myers, who flew a Delta Dart at 2,485 kilometres per hour (1,544 mph) in 1959, but Cold War pressures dictated that the award go to an active-military pilot.[39][40][41]
22 November 1961 United States Robert B. Robinson, US Navy 1,606.3 2,585.1 McDonnell-Douglas F4H-1F Phantom II Muroc, California, US [3]: 165 [42]
7 July 1962 Soviet Union Col. Georgi Mosolov 1,665.9 2,681 Mikoyan Gurevich Ye-166 USSR [43][44] Name adopted for record attempt, a version of a Ye-152 a.k.a. E-166.[3]: 179 
1 May 1965 United States Robert L. Stephens
and Daniel Andre		 2,070.1 3,331.5 Lockheed YF-12A Muroc, California, US [45]
28 July 1976 United States Capt. Eldon W. Joersz (P) and
Maj. George T. Morgan Jr. (RSO)		 2,193.2 3,529.6 Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird #61-7958 Beale AFB, US [46]

Official records versus unofficial

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The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird holds the official Air Speed Record for a crewed airbreathing jet engine aircraft with a speed of 3,530 km/h (2,190 mph). The record was set on 28 July 1976 by Eldon W. Joersz and George T. Morgan Jr. near Beale Air Force Base, California, USA. It was able to take off and land unassisted on conventional runways.[47] SR-71 pilot Brian Shul claimed in The Untouchables that he flew in excess of Mach 3.5 on 15 April 1986, over Libya, in order to avoid a missile.[48]

Although the official record for fastest piston-engined aeroplane in level flight was held by a Grumman F8F Bearcat, the Rare Bear, with a speed of 850.23 km/h (528.31 mph), the unofficial record for fastest piston-engined aeroplane in level flight is held by a British Hawker Sea Fury at 880 km/h (547 mph). Both were demilitarised and modified fighters, while the fastest stock (original, factory-built) piston-engined aeroplane was unofficially the Supermarine Spiteful F Mk 16, which "achieved a speed of 494m.p.h. at 28,500ft during official tests at Boscombe Down" in level flight.[49] The unofficial record for fastest piston-engined aeroplane (not in level flight) is held by a Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XIX, which was calculated to have achieved a speed of 1,110 km/h (690 mph) in a dive on 5 February 1952.

The last new speed record ratified before the outbreak of World War II was set on 26 April 1939 with a Me 209 V1, at 755 km/h (469 mph). The chaos and secrecy of World War II meant that new speed breakthroughs were neither publicized nor ratified. In October 1941, an unofficial speed record of 1,004 km/h (624 mph) was secretly set by a Messerschmitt Me 163A "V4" rocket aircraft. Continued research during the war extended the secret, unofficial speed record to 1,130 km/h (700 mph) by July 1944, achieved by a Messerschmitt Me 163B "V18". The first new official record in the post-war period was achieved by a Gloster Meteor F Mk.4 in November 1945, at 975 km/h (606 mph). The first aircraft to exceed the unofficial October 1941 record of the Me 163A V4 was the Douglas D-558-1 Skystreak, which achieved 1,032 km/h (641 mph) in August 1947. The July 1944 unofficial record of the Me 163B V18 was officially surpassed in November 1947, when Chuck Yeager flew the Bell X-1 to 1,434 km/h (891 mph).

The official speed record for a seaplane moved by piston engine is 709.209 km/h (440.682 mph), which attained on 24 October 1934, by Francesco Agello in the Macchi-Castoldi M.C.72 seaplane ("idrocorsa") and it remains the current record.[50] It was equipped with the Fiat AS.6 engine (version 1934) developing a power of 2,300 kW (3,100 hp) at 3,300 rpm, with coaxial counter-rotating propellers. The original record holding Macchi-Castoldi M.C.72 MM.181 seaplane is at the Air Force Museum at Vigna di Valle in Italy.

Other air speed records

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Date Pilot Airspeed Aircraft Comments
mph km/h
2 October 1985 Holger Rochelt 27.54 44.32 Musculair 2 Fastest human-powered aircraft[51]
22 December 2006 Klaus Ohlmann & Matias Garcia Mazzaro 190.6 306.8 Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-4DM Fastest (non-powered) glider over 500 km[52]
11 August 1986 Trevor Egginton 249 400.87 Westland Lynx Fastest helicopter[53][54][55]
31 December 1988 L.P. Krantov 258.8 415 Tupolev Tu-134A Highest landing speed for a civil aircraft[56]
11 June 2013 Hervé Jammayrac 293 472 Eurocopter X3 Fastest propeller compound helicopter[57]
15 September 2010 Kevin Bredenbeck 299 481 Sikorsky X2 Fastest compound helicopter, shallow dive (unofficial)[58]
19 March 1989 Unknown pilot 316 509 Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey[59][60] Tiltrotor
15 April 1969 Unknown pilot 316 509 Bell 533 Compound jet helicopter[61][62]
19 November 2021 Steve Jones 345.4 555.9 Rolls-Royce Accel ‘Spirit of Innovation’ Fastest electric-only aeroplane[63]
6 February 2003 Joseph J. Ritchie, Steve Fossett 576.3 927.4 Piaggio P.180 Avanti Fastest propeller-driven aircraft of any type.[64]
2 September 2017 Steve Hinton Jr. 531.53 855.41 P-51 "Voodoo" Fastest straight-line piston-engined aircraft in level flight[65][66]
9 April 1960 Ivan Sukhomlin, Konstantin Sapielkine 545.07 877.21 Tupolev Tu-114 Fastest propeller-driven airliner-size aircraft, per FAI.[67]

Both Tu-116 and Tu-142 claim higher maximum speeds.

5 February 1952 Flight Lieutenant Edward Powles 690 1,110.447 Supermarine Spitfire PR.XIX PS852 Reached (Mach 0.96) during an emergency dive while carrying out spying flights over China, the highest speed ever recorded for a piston-engined aircraft (though not in level flight).[68]
14 October 2012 Felix Baumgartner 844 1,358 None (jumped from a helium balloon gondola) Fastest unpowered descent of a human[69][70]
7 February 1996 Captain Leslie Scott 1,249 2,010 Concorde Fastest passenger plane on a regular route[71]
3 October 1967 William 'Pete' Knight 4,519 7,274 North American X-15 Rocket plane[72]
16 November 2004 Uncrewed 6,755 10,870 NASA X-43A Air-launched hypersonic scramjet; fastest free-flying air-breathing vehicle[73]
22 April 2010 Uncrewed 13,201 21,245 HTV-2 Falcon Air-launched hypersonic glider; fastest uncrewed aerial vehicle[74]
14 November 1981 Joe H. Engle 17,500 28,000 Space Shuttle Columbia Fastest manually controlled flight in atmosphere during atmospheric reentry of STS-2 mission.
15 November 1988 Uncrewed 18,019 29,000 Buran The fastest unmanned (but capable of carrying up to 8-10 people) spaceplane ever built [citation needed], weighing 100 tons or more.

Flying between any two airports allow a large number of combinations, so setting a speed record ("speed over a recognised course") is fairly easy with an ordinary aircraft, although there are many administrative requirements for recognition.[75][76][77]

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