A great-grandfather of six from Middlesex County is finishing up a jaw-dropping aviation feat , just five months shy of his 90th birthday.

Ed Galkin and his copilot are set to return to Central Jersey Regional Airport around noon Sunday, concluding a 37-day, 8,800-mile journey highlighted by two crossings of the Atlantic Ocean and 15 stops in 11 nations.

“It’s been an incredible voyage,” Galkin told CBC News Canada on Thursday while in Newfoundland.

Galkin has flown four times around the world with copilots, most recently in 2022, all in the same single-engine plane the retired dentist purchased in 1977 and is using on his current adventure.

He and his 72-year-old copilot, Peter Teahen of Iowa, were in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Saturday. Their Sunday morning return flight t

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