G650ER Crew Sets New Polar Circumnavigation Record
The Qatar Executive G650ER covered the 21,691 nm route in 46 hours and 40 minutes, shaving nearly six hours off the previous record.

A Qatar Executive Gulfstream G650ER has broken the polar circumnavigation of the Earth record, accomplishing the flight in 46 hours, 39 minutes, and 38 seconds. Scheduled to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing mission this month, the flight departed NASA’s Cape Canaveral facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Tuesday at 9:32 a.m.—the same time as the moon mission launch a half-century earlier—and landed there this morning at 8:12 a.m., shaving 5 hours, 51 minutes, and 26 seconds off the previous speed record set in 2008.