Video: '1933 Wiley Post makes First solo flight around the world newsreel archival footage'

(Saturday, July 22, 1933, 11:59:30 p.m. local time) — Wiley Post became the first person to fly solo around the world tonight, traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days 18 hours 45 minutes and landing 30 seconds before midnight at New York’s Floyd Bennett Field, where he had departed on July 15.