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Steve Fossett
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American businessman, record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer
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Key facts
- Born
- James Stephen Fossett , ( 1944-04-22 ) April 22, 1944, Jackson, Tennessee , U.S.
- Died
- September 3, 2007 (2007-09-03) (aged 63), Sierra Nevada Mountains, California , U.S.
- Cause of death
- Plane crash
- Body discovered
- October 29, 2008
- Alma mater
- Washington University in St. Louis ( MBA ), Stanford University ( BA ), Garden Grove High School
- Known for
- setting a large number of world records as an adventurer, sailor and aviator
- Spouse
- Peggy Viehland
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Stephen
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Jackson
- Place of death
- Sierra Nevada
- Occupation
- sailor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 24 Hours of Le Mans
- Sport
- auto racing
- Official website
- www.stevefossett.com
- Image
- Steven Fosset flygare och äventyrare.jpg
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- member of
- Royal Geographical Society
- Commons category
- Steve Fossett
- date of birth
- 1944-04-22
- date of death
- 2007-09-03
- cause of death
- aviation accident
- name in native language
- Steve Fossett
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Encyclopedic overview
James Stephen Fossett (April 22, 1944 – September 3, 2007) was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft. He made his fortune in the financial services industry and held world records for five nonstop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo flight fixed-wing aircraft pilot.
A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club, Fossett set more than one hundred records in five different sports, sixty of which still stood at the time of his death. He broke three of the seven absolute world records for fixed-wing aircraft recognized by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, all in his Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer. In 2002, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Aero Club of the UK, and was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2007.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Steve Fossett” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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