Liberty II Flight Log

Arrival Date Landing Site Distance (miles) Purpose/Destination
May 20 Anchorage 1,460 20 Days
June 13 Seattle 1,460 Overnight
(Casey returns to Seattle as U.S.S.R. would not give clearance to travel through its territory. He decides to reverse course, going west to east.)
June 14 San Diego 1,089 Overnight
June 15 Oklahoma City 1,148 Overnight
June 16 New Orleans 602 Fuel Stop
St. Augustine 510 Overnight
June 17 Lancaster, SC 418 Overnight
June 18 Washington, D.C. 346 Press Conference
Hackensack, NJ 211 Father in Hospital
June 19 East Haddam, CT 108 Repairs
Halifax, Nova Scotia 497 Overnight
June 20 Goose Bay, Labrador 640 Overnight
June 21 Narsarsuaq, Greenland 785 Overnight
June 22 Reykjavik 772 Stopover
Keflavik, U.S. Naval Station 18 Overnight
June 23 Ayr, Scotland 878 Overnight
June 24 Ayr, Scotland - Strut Repair
June 25 Foynes, Ireland 277 Visit Relatives
June 28 Lake Como, Italy 935 Missed U.K. Press conference -- Overnight
June 29 Lake Como, Italy - Awaited clearance to Athens
June 30 Athens 926 Awaited clearance
July 5 Souda Bay, Crete 140 Awaited clearances
July 28 Alexandria, Egypt 435 Fuel Stop
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 897 Extended stay -- Back Operation
Sept. 10 Bahrain (plus 150 miles) 950 Overnight
Sept 11. Dubai 301 Overnight
Sept. 13 Karachi 741 Extended stay -- State Dept. edict re: Desert Shield
Oct. 3 Bombay 510 Awaited clearance; paid flight to Calcutta
Oct. 10 Calcutta 1,022 Overnight
Oct. 13 Burma - Overfly
Bang Reservoir, Thailand 1,036 Hosted by Thai Gov.
Oct. 15 George Town, Penang 554 Overnight
Oct. 16 Singapore - Overfly
Brunei 1,093 Overnight
Oct. 17 NAS Cubi Point 787 Awaited Japan Clearance
Subic Bay, Philippines - Moved to protected harbor
Oct. 21 Kadena, Okinawa (+150) 1,120 Awaited Japan clearance
Oct. 23 Kasumigaura Bay, Japan 1,060 Overnight
Oct. 24 Misawa AFB, Japan 321 Weather Delay
Oct. 30 Memanbetsu, Japan 285 Overnight
Oct. 31 Attu, Aleutian Islands 1,587 Engine Inspected
Nov. 1 Kiska Island 205 Engine Failure; rescued, taken to Shemya for repairs
Nov. 2 Shemya Island - Repairs
Dec. 7 Attu 52 Restarting Attu leg
Atka Island 544 Magento Problem
Dec. 12 Dutch Harbor, AK 337 Overnight
Dec. 13 Kodiak, AK 823 Overnight
Dec. 14 Juneau 653
Dec. 15 Petersburg, AK 117 Stopover
Ketchikan, AK 114 Overnight
Dec. 16 Victoria Island, BC 379 Overnight
Dec. 17 Friday Harbor, San Juan Islands 231 Overnight
Dec. 18 Seattle 125 End of Record Flight
Total miles traveled -- global round trip starting from June 14: 26,579
Total miles flown -- initial round trip to/from Alaska: 2,920
Total miles flown: 29,499

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Relive the historic circumnavigation of the globe by floatplane pilot Tom Casey, nearly 30,000 miles in the making, through major set-backs and diplomatic incidents…

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"He deserves all the accolades that come with flying this historic round-the-world aviation record adventure. Yes, he is as good a pilot as Lindbergh and perhaps even better, since he flew far further and had to land and take off only on water."
Jack L. Hammondmanager Phillips 66 Aviation Sales
"General aviation gained a real hero today, Tom. You have a lot to be proud of and we are most certainly proud of you."
Vice Admiral Donald Engen (Ret.)President and CEO Air Safety Foundations
"All the series of forthcoming adventures, in this general aviation pioneering saga, will become folklore and will certainly be shared with many youngsters aspiring to be aviators."
David KnightFlight Coordinator
"He (Casey) is the greatest goodwill ambassador ever to come to Saudi Arabia."
Phillip GriffinU.S. Consul General, Saudi Arabia
"Mr. Casey has much in common with Lindbergh... each confronted seemingly insurmountable dangers and misfortunes, each persisted and accomplished his dream. The flight of Liberty II will be recorded in aviation history."
Slade GortonU.S. Senator, Washington

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