This is a list of human-powered aircraft by date.
TypeimageCountryDateClassDesigner / builderNotesAbhilasha HPA Netherlands 2009 Jesse van Kuijk AeroVelo Atlas Canada 2013 Helicopter Todd Reichert; Cameron Robertson Winner of Igor I. Sikorsky Human-Powered Helicopter Challenge with 64 s controlled flight, reaching 3.3 m above ground.Airglow HPA UK 1990 John and Mark McIntyre Bauer Bird USA 1973 Biplane Ted Bauer Built by Bauer's eight-grade students at San Gabriel Academy.Betterfly UK 2009 David Barford 950 m max. distance. Capable of 120° turn. Very stable and easy to flyBHI PHANTOM Japan 2021 Yuta Watanabe / BIRDMAN HOUSE IGA Winner of 45th Japan International Birdman Rally (JIBR 2023) HPA division. 69.68242 km round-trip along a 70 km V-shape course (18-17-17-18 km). Piloted by Yuta Watanabe; Flight distance record in JIBR.BHI PHOENIX Japan 2017 Yuta Watanabe / BIRDMAN HOUSE IGA Winner of 40th and 42nd Japan International Birdman Rally (JIBR 2017 and 2019) HPA division.In 2017, 40.000 km completed round-trip flight along a 40 km out-and-return course (20-20 km).In 2019, 60.000 km completed round-trip flight around a 60 km triangle closed circuit course (19-22-19 km). Piloted by Yuta Watanabe; Flight distance record in JIBR in 2017 - 2019 and 2019 - 2023.Bionic Bat USA 1984 Paul MacCready Jr. Two Kremer speed challenges won, doing 1500 m in 163.28 seconds on 18 July 1984 and 143.08 seconds on 2 December 1984.Bird Ornithopter UK Ornithopter Bryn Bird Two prototypes built, but no record of any flights. Bliesner 1 to 3 USA 1978 Wayne T. Bliesner Unsuccessful precursors to Bliesners more successful efforts. No. 3 crashed during towed-flight attempts.Bliesner 4 USA 1979 Wayne T. Bliesner 100 yards.Bliesner 5 USA 1980 Wayne T. Bliesner 1 mile, crashed during testing.Bliesner 6 USA 1980 Wayne T. Bliesner A few hops, crashed during testing.Bliesner 7 USA 1981 Wayne T. Bliesner 300 yards.Boffin-Coffin New Zealand 1988 Don Walther Prone pilot position; tandem wing; pusher propeller. Flight trials, commencing in 1987, were unsuccessful, eventually abandoned after persistent ground-handling damage and a violent gust of wind entering the hangar where the aircraft was stored.Chyeranovskii BICh-18 USSR 1937 Only known to have been launched as a glider with the wing mechanism locked, but flown at least once with the wings operated by the pilot after a launch as a glider.Cochkanoff HPA USSR 1974 Orest Cochkanoff Cook Musfly UK 1977 David CookTwo-place weight-shift tailless HPA. IncompleteCranfield Vertigo UK 1987 Andrew Cranfield Human-powered helicopter; transmission problems slowed development.CT-2.2 RockHopper2 Japan 2005 Yoshiyasu Hirano / Coolthrust Flew over 18 km at the 29th Japan international Birdman Rally in 2005 piloted by Sosuke Tanaka.Czerwinski HPA Canada 1967 Czerwinski A two-seater with twin propellers built in Ottawa, but no record of any flights.DaSH PA USA 2015 Alec Proudfoot Da Vinci II USA 1988 Helicopter California Polytechnic State University Da Vinci III USA 1989 Helicopter California Polytechnic State University 7 s, height 0.2 m, flight not controlled by pilot.Druiff-Neate Cycloplane UK 1909 built by Messrs. C. G. Spencer & Co. Dumbo-Mercury UK 1971 P. K. Green, W. F. Ball and M. J. Rudd / Weybridge MPAG Originally nickname "Dumbo" at Weybridge. When taken over by John Potter at RAF Cranwell, it was renamed Mercury.Dumoulin tracteur pour la navigation aérienne France 1904 Biplane Dumoulin A human-powered circular-winged biplane with Archimedean screw propellers turned by hand.DUT Icarus 001 Netherlands Delft University of Technology With the Movement Science Faculty of the University of Maastricht.Egret I Japan 1973 Kimura / Nihon University 37 yards.Egret 2 Japan 1974 Kimura / Nihon University 222 yards.Egret 3 Japan 1974 Kimura / Nihon University Farman Aviette HPA France 1912 Flycycle 1974 Fokker I Netherlands 1931 Built by brothers Jan and Cor Fokker Made two towed flightsFrost Emmett HPA New Zealand 1970s John Frost / University of Auckland Revisited 1984Gamera HPH USA 1972 Helicopter University of Maryland Gamera II HPH USA 2012 Helicopter University of Maryland Duration 65 s, height < 1 ft Gerhardt Cycleplane USA 1923 Multiplane Flight Test Section at McCook Field hop.Gokuraku Tombo Japan 1986 Team Aeroscepsy Several HPAs built by the team are called the same. Two Japanese records set under the FAI rules: 4.437 km (May 1992) and 10.881 km (Aug. 2003). The 22nd Japan International Birdman Rally (JIBR) HPA section won, 23.688 km. The first HPA reached the opposite shore (northwest shore) of Lake Biwa from start point at east shore. The 30th JIBR HPA won time-trial section. Piloted by Hironori Nakayama.Goodhart Newbury Manflier UK 1979 Nicholas Goodhart Two-seater with separate pods; pilot control tasks shared.Gossamer Albatross USA 1978 Paul MacCready Jr. & Peter Lissaman Kremer Prize for first cross-channel flight, 12 June 1979. Two records set, both superseded: 35.82 km straight distance and 2h 49 min Duration.Gossamer Condor (Pasadena version) USA 1976 Paul MacCready Jr. & Peter Lissaman One short hop only, in the car park of the Pasadena Rose Bowl.Gossamer Condor (Mojave version) USA 1976 Paul MacCready Jr. & Peter Lissaman (Mojave version)Gossamer Condor (Shafter airport version) USA 1977 Paul MacCready Jr. & Peter Lissaman Kremer prize for figure-eight course, 1.15 miles (1850 m), 7 min 25 s flight, 23 August 1977.Popular Science jan 1978Halton Jupiter UK 1972 Christopher Roper /John Potter 1171 m, 1 min 47 s flightPopular Science may 1977Hardy HPA Roger Hardy Hartman Ikarus UK 1959 Emiel Hartman Hill Flying Wing Hill HMPAC Puffin 1 UK 1961 Wimpenny, Vann & Hatfield Man Powered Aircraft Club 993 yards.HMPAC Puffin 2 UK 1965 Wimpenny, Vann & Hatfield Man Powered Aircraft Club 875 yards, height 17 feet, turns.Aviette Hurel France 1974 Maurice Hurel Flight trials in June 1974 Popular Science, February 1974.HV-1 Mufli Germany 1935 Helmut Haessler & F. Villinger MUSKELFLUG INSTITUT (Institute of Muscle-Powered-Flight)