Transcontinental air speed record

These are records for flight between coasts in North America.

[edit] Transcontinental air speed record

In-flight and on-ground time are counted

1911 Calbraith Perry Rodgers on September 17, 1911 was the first transcontinental flight. It took fifty days (3 days 10 hours 14 minutes actual flying time). Rodgers made it in some seventy hops, flying a Wright biplane which was damaged and repaired so many times en route that nothing remained of the original machine at the finish but the drip pan and the vertical rudder.
1929 Frank Hawks
1930 Roscoe Turner from New York City to Los Angeles in 18 hours and 43 minutes
1930 Frank Hawks from Los Angeles to New York City in 12 hours and 25 minutes
1930 Roscoe Turner from New York City to Burbank, California in 12 hours and 33 minutes on November 14th
1936 Howard Hughes in 9 hours and 27 minutes
1937 Howard Hughes from Burbank, California to Newark, New Jersey in 7 hours and 28 minutes
1939 Ben Kelsey from Marsh Field, California to Mitchel Field, New York in 7 hours and ? minutes

For the junior record only in-flight time is counted

1929 Richard James
1930 Stanley Boynton East to west, 24 hours, 2 minutes in 6 days
1930 Frank H. Goldsborough combined east to weat and west to east in 62 hours and 58 minutes
1930 Eddie August Schneider August 1930 from Westfield, New Jersey on August 14, 1930 to Los Angeles, California in 4 days with a combined flying time of 29 hours and 55 minutes. He lowered the East to West record by 4 hours and 22 minutes. He then made the return trip from Los Angeles to Roosevelt Field, New York in 27 hours and 19 minutes, lowering the West to East record by 1 hour and 36 minutes. His total elapsed time for the round trip was 57 hours and 14 minutes
1930 Robert N. Buck

For the women's record only in-flight time is counted