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World’s youngest pilot circumnavigating the world arrives in Colombo

RATMALANA : Colombo International Airport, Ratmalana, Sri Lanka, welcomes Zara Rutherford, the youngest woman to fly solo around the world. She is the first Belgian to circumnavigate the world solo in a single-engine aircraft.

“ We are happy to welcome Zara Rutherford, 19 years old, on her journey to break the Guinness World Records;an official from the Sri Lankan Aviation said here in Colombo on Saturday, Jan 1

She is the youngest woman to fly around the world and she is also the first woman to circumnavigate the world in a microlight

On the 18th of August 2021, 19-year-old Belgian-British pilot Zara started a journey with a small aero plane to fly solo around the world and she hopes to complete her 51,000-kilometre trip across five continents and 52 countries by mid-January 2022.

Zara Rutherford is flying a Shark, which is a high-performance aircraft and Sri Lanka is the 40th country she landed on her mission.

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