Piccard's world record solo flight across the Atlantic on a solar-powered aircraft 

On 23 June 2016, Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard set a new Distance world record for electric airplane when he flew 5'851.30 km in the electric solar-powered plane, Solar Impulse 2, between New York and Seville. It was the first Transatlantic flight ever achieved by an electric airplane and was one of several world records the Solar Impulse project achieved.
Setting off from Abu Dhabi in March 2015 Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg completed the first solar round the world flight in 17 legs, landing back in Abu Dhabi in July 2016.