The Model 81 Catbird.
That's the one David, the Rutan 81 Catbird
Designed originally as a replacement for the Beech Bonanza in the late 80's, the one Catbird was put in to storage in the 90's and eventually restored last year to flying conditionn.
As for the records held, courtesy of wikipedia:
Catbird set two world records which as of February 2012
[update] still stand. The first was in
Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) class C-1b (land planes with takeoff weight of between 500 and 1000 kg) speed over a closed circuit of 2 000 km 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) without payload. For this record, set at
Mojave piloted by Dick Rutan, a speed of 401.46 km/h (249.46 mph) was achieved. The second record was set in class C-1c (aircraft between 1000 and 1750 kg takeoff weight), over the same course but piloted by Mike Melvill, at a speed of 413.78 km/h (257.11 mph).
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