Arthur Blank's Global 7500 returns to Marietta from Madrid in 8-hour flight

Arthur Blank's Bombardier Global 7500, tail number N62LV, landed at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia, on Sunday, November 8, 2026, at 03:49 UTC. The aircraft departed from Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport in Spain at 19:37 UTC the previous day. The flight took 8 hours and 12 minutes.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 3,758 nautical miles, or about 4,324 miles. The aircraft reached a top altitude of 45,025 feet and a top ground speed of 534 knots. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 3,364 US gallons of fuel and produced about 32,318 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 79,994 miles. The Bombardier Global 7500 is an ultra-long-range jet with a range of 7,700 nautical miles, a top speed of Mach 0.925, and a ceiling of 51,000 feet. It typically seats 13 passengers and can seat up to 19.

This was the 18th landing at Marietta by Arthur Blank's aircraft in the tracked window from September 13 to November 5, 2026. The previous landing at Marietta by the same aircraft was on November 1, seven days before this flight. Marietta is the most common destination for Blank's fleet in that period, followed by Austin with four landings and Oceanside with two. In the 30 days before this flight, Blank's two aircraft flew 22 flights totaling 49.5 hours in the air and visited 14 airports in two countries. Another aircraft, a Gulfstream G280 registered to Genuine Parts, landed at Marietta about four hours earlier.

Dobbins Air Reserve Base is located in Marietta, about 20 miles northwest of Atlanta, where the Falcons and Atlanta United are based. Blank's aircraft are registered to AMB Group LLC, the investment and management arm of his family of businesses. The Falcons are in the middle of a front-office restructuring, as reported by the team's official website in July 2026, when Blank announced a search for a new president of football.

The Bombardier Global 7500 has four living zones and a 54.4-foot cabin. The aircraft used 49 percent of its range on this flight. Its average ground speed was 458 knots. The departure airport in Madrid has a longest runway of 14,271 feet at an elevation of 1,998 feet. The arrival field at Dobbins has a longest runway of 10,002 feet at an elevation of 1,068 feet.

In the tracked window from September 13 to November 5, 2026, Arthur Blank's two aircraft flew 39 flights. Before this flight, the aircraft had been on the ground for about three days after its previous tracked landing at Madrid on November 5. The other aircraft on file for Blank is a Bombardier Global 6000 with tail number N611BF.

We track Arthur Blank's aircraft, not Arthur Blank in person. Flight data shows when and where each plane flew.