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TIL the Longest Helicopter Flight was 2,213 Miles and 15 Hours 18 Minutes Long by Bob Ferry in 1966. He Flew Non-stop from Culvert City, California to Daytona Beach, Florida in a Hughes OH-6A Cayuse.

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