Can a Cessna 150 cross the Atlantic?

No problem. Anyone brave enough to teach me to fly should have no qualms about ferrying a 150 across the Atlantic and down the length of Africa. Shipping the aircraft was too expensive, and a ferry flight was made more attractive by the offer of generous sponsorship from Des Erasmus of Laser Cut Varios.



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Watch the timelapse of all the highlights from the ferry flight adventure across the Atlantic Ocean in the Cessna 172. Throughout their journey they landed at 14 different airports, overflew 6 different countries, crossed the Atlantic and covered over 4300 nautical miles to bring home the two new Cessna 172's.

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The shortest recorded time for a commercial flight is four hours 56 minutes by a British Airways 747 in June 2020. British Airways Boeing 747 set the record for the fastest flight between New York and London in under 5 hours. British Airways' flight broke the subsonic record.

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Elite pilots deliver small planes across oceans and continents - distances these aircraft were not designed to fly. Flying alone across the Atlantic Ocean in a tiny, single-engine plane at low altitudes, sometimes in extreme weather conditions, is not for the faint-hearted. Things can and do go wrong.

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Can a Cessna 172 fly across the Atlantic? Yes, and that is how they deliver single engine airplanes to Europe and beyond. Oh . . . they do make provisions for extra fuel and with several stops, as no one flies across the Atlantic by flying due east.

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How Far Can A Cessna 172 Fly? A Cessna 172 Skyhawk has a range of about 800 miles on a full tank of fuel; that's about the same distance from New York City to Detroit (in Michigan), Columbus (in Ohio), or Windsor (in Ontario, Canada).

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