Ed Galkin is about to add another adventure to his astonishing flight resume.

Galkin has flown around the world four times, most recently in 2022, in the same single-engine plane the retired dentist purchased in 1977.

Now he’s getting ready for a 37-day, 8,800-mile journey that is starting and finishing in New Jersey. It will be highlighted by two crossings of the Atlantic Ocean and 15 stops in 11 nations.

Galkin said he and his copilot, Peter Teahen, are planning to depart Central Jersey Regional Airport in Hillsborough around 9 a.m. Saturday.

“I get a chance to do one more mission, to fly across the Atlantic,” Galkin, a married father of two, grandfather of five and great-grandfather of six, told NJ Advance Media on Friday.

Galkin was accompanied by copilots during his four jour

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