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Site last updated by RMH
30 Apr 2021, 18:06

Records set with aircraft made by Advance
This is the definitive list of UK records but the FAI website is the authority for World records.

Filter: All   Current World   Superseded World    Current UK   Superseded UK   

Superseded World record
PF2T Time to climb to a height of 3000 m
Performance 0h 48m 44s
Date 29 Sep 2014
Pilot Mick Roche (GBR)
Co-pilot Suzanne Hobbs
Aircraft Advance Bi Beta
Engine Bailey Hornet
Location Over, Cambridgeshire (United Kingdom)
Current UK record
PF2T Time to climb to a height of 3000 m
Performance 0h 48m 44s
Date 29 Sep 2014
Pilot Mick Roche (GBR)
Co-pilot Suzanne Hobbs
Aircraft Advance Bi Beta with Matrix
Engine Bailey Hornet
Location Over, Cambridgeshire
Ratified by FAI as a World record
Max. 0h 47m 16s to beat this record.
Superseded UK record
PF2T Altitude
Performance 3450m (11318 Ft)
Date 29 Sep 2014
Pilot Mick Roche (GBR)
Co-pilot Susanne Hobbs
Aircraft Bailey Matrix / Advance Bi-Beta 5
Engine Bailey Hornet
Location Over, Canbridgeshire
Observer Paul Bailey, Giles Fowler, Gordon Blackley
Superseded UK record
PF1Tm Altitude
Performance 5580m (18305 Ft)
Date 27 Sep 2014
Pilot Giles Fowler (GBR)
Aircraft Bailey Matrix / Advance Epsilon 7
Engine Bailey Hornet
Location Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Observer Paul Bailey, Gordon Blackley, Tom Garner
Superseded UK record
PF1Tm Time to climb to a height of 3000 m
Performance 0h 21m 53s
Date 22 Sep 2014
Pilot Gordon Blackley (GBR)
Aircraft Bailey Matrix / Advance Epsilon 7
Engine Bailey Hornet
Location Over, Cambridgeshire
Observer Paul Bailey, Giles Fowler, Suzanne Hobbs
Did not quite exceed the current World Record by the required 3% (missed by 23 sec)
Superseded UK record
PF1Tm Altitude
Performance 2918m (9572 Ft)
Date 22 Sep 2014
Pilot Gordon Blackley (GBR)
Aircraft Bailey Matrix / Advance Epsilon 7
Engine Bailey Hornet
Location Over, Cambridgeshire
Observer Paul Bailey, Giles Fowler, Suzanne Hobbs
Current World record
PF1Tm Altitude
Performance 7589m (24895 Ft)
Date 19 Sep 2009
Pilot Ramón Morillas Salmeron (ESP)
Aircraft Advance Sigma 7
Location Hushe's Valey (Pakistan)
Min. 7817m (25642 Ft) to beat this record.
Superseded World record
PF1Tf Altitude
Performance 4073m (13361 Ft)
Date 1 May 2009
Pilot Karen Skinner (ESP)
Aircraft Advance Epsilon 5
Engine PAP YR 200
Location Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife (Spain)
Superseded World record
PF1Tf Time to climb to a height of 3000 m
Performance 0h 30m 29s
Date 1 May 2009
Pilot Karen Skinner (ESP)
Aircraft Advance Epsilon 6
Engine PAP YR 200
Location Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife (Spain)
Current World record
PF1Tm Time to climb to a height of 6000 m
Performance 1h 12m 32s
Date 2 Sep 2008
Pilot Ramón Morillas Salmeron (ESP)
Aircraft Advance Omega 7
Engine PAP VR 200
Location Granada (Spain)
Max. 1h 10m 21s to beat this record.
Superseded World record
PF1Tm Altitude
Performance 6721m (22047 Ft)
Date 2 Sep 2008
Pilot Ramón Morillas Salmeron (ESP)
Aircraft Advance Omega 7
Engine PAP VR 200
Location Granada (Spain)
Current World record
PF1Tm Distance in a straight line
Performance 1105 Km (597 Nm)
Date 23 Apr 2007
Pilot Ramón Morillas Salmeron (ESP)
Aircraft Advance Omega 7
Engine PAP ROS 1450
Location Jerez, Cadiz (Spain) - Lanzarote, Canarias (Spain)
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Min. 1116.05 Km (603 Nm) to beat this record.
Superseded World record
PF1Tm Altitude
Performance 6102m (20017 Ft)
Date 6 Oct 2006
Pilot Ramón Morillas Salmeron (ESP)
Aircraft Advance Omega 7
Engine PAP 1400 ROS
Location Granada (Spain)
Superseded World record
PF1Tm Time to climb to a height of 6000 m
Performance 4h 40m 27s
Date 6 Oct 2006
Pilot Ramón Morillas Salmeron (ESP)
Aircraft Advance Omega 7
Engine PAP 1400 ROS
Location Granada (Spain)
Superseded World championship record
PF1Tm Japanese Slalom
Performance 56.95 sec
Date 23 Aug 2006
Pilot Ramón Morillas Salmeron (ESP)
Aircraft Advance Epsilon 5
Location 2006 European Microlight Championships New Classe León (Spain)
Superseded World record
PF1Tm Distance in a straight line
Performance 951 Km (514 Nm)
Date 8 Jun 2006
Pilot Ramón Morillas Salmeron (ESP)
Aircraft Advance Epsilon 5, PAP 1400 Ross
Location Aldea la Bella, Lepe (Spain) - Roquefort (France)
Superseded World record
PF1Tm Altitude
Performance 5414m (17760 Ft)
Date 29 Apr 2005
Pilot Ramón Morillas Salmeron (ESP)
Aircraft Advance Omega Proto & PAP 1.400 Blackdevil
Location Los Realejos, Tenerife (Spain)
Superseded UK record
PF2T Altitude
Performance 1334m (4376 Ft)
Date 18 Mar 2000
Pilot Kevin Bates (GBR)
Co-pilot Jane Brooks
Aircraft DK Whisper Plus / Advance Bi-Beta
Engine Solo 210
Location Four Stone, Kinnerton, Nr New Radnor, Powys (UK)
Ratified by FAI as as World record on 1 Nov 2000
World Records: Current 3     Superseded 9
UK Records: Current 1     Superseded 5
World records courtesy FAI. See the FAI website for the definitive list of World records, this listing last checked 27 Mar 2023.

This list does not include World record claims pending ratification.