First person of Indian origin to fly solo around the world in a single engine plane.
Spouse
Pratibha Bansal
Awards
Upstate New York Entrepreneur of the Year 1993 Walter P. Cooke Award 2009 State University of New York Honorary Doctorate of Science 2022
Aviation career
Famous flights
Solo Global Circumnavigation 4 July – 20 August 2017
Ravinder Bansal (born 26 February 1949),[1] is an Indian American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and amateur pilot from Clarence, New York.[2][3][4][5] He was the first person of Indian origin to fly around the world solo in a single engine plane.[1][6][7]