Andrew Forrest's Bombardier Global 8000 flies 14 miles from Karain to Antalya in 10 minutes

Andrew Forrest's Bombardier Global 8000, tail number VH-FMG, flew from Karain Airport (LTXE) to Antalya International Airport (LTAI) in Türkiye on Tuesday, November 10, 2026. The aircraft departed at 22:37 UTC and landed at 22:47 UTC, spending 10 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 14 nautical miles, or about 16 miles.

The flight covered 14 nautical miles at a top ground speed of 293 knots and reached a highest altitude of 9,050 feet. Celebplanes estimates the aircraft burned about 75 US gallons of fuel, producing about 720 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 1,783 miles. The Bombardier Global 8000 is an ultra-long-range heavy jet with a typical range of about 8,000 nautical miles and seating for up to 19 passengers.

The departure airport, Karain, sits at an elevation of 1,015 feet. The arrival airport, Antalya International, has a longest runway of 11,155 feet and an elevation of 177 feet. The aircraft's estimated fuel burn is 450 US gallons per hour.

Before this flight, VH-FMG had no tracked landings at Antalya in the window from July 2 to November 10, 2026. The aircraft's most common destinations in that period were Perth, Australia, with 11 landings, and San Francisco with two. In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited 12 airports in seven countries and flew about 14,695 nautical miles. Two other tracked aircraft landed at Antalya in the 24 hours before this flight: Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Turkish Presidential Flight, a Boeing 747-800 BBJ, landed about 11 hours earlier, and the Kuwait Amiri Flight, a Boeing 737-900 BBJ3, landed about 10 hours earlier.

Andrew Forrest is the chairman of Fortescue, an Australian mining and green energy company. Antalya is a coastal city in southern Türkiye known for tourism and as a hub for business aviation. No news reports from the web search tied Andrew Forrest or Fortescue to a specific event in Antalya on this date.

The previous tracked flight for VH-FMG was a 2-hour 36-minute trip from Paris to Denizli, Türkiye, on November 10. That flight covered 1,351 nautical miles. The aircraft's longest leg in the 30 days before this flight was from Honolulu to Bedford on October 30, covering 4,407 nautical miles.

Before this flight, the aircraft had no time on the ground after its previous tracked landing at Denizli on November 10. In the days before, the plane flew from Kenley to Paris on November 8, covering 170 nautical miles in 40 minutes. On November 5, it flew from Miami to Kenley, a flight of 3,852 nautical miles lasting 8 hours 6 minutes.

This 10-minute hop added to the aircraft's tracked history of 38 flights since July 2, 2026. The aircraft's total tracked CO2 output in the 30 days before this flight was about 204,818 kilograms.