Gulfstream V N889KH flies from Bowling Green to Nashville in 14 minutes

Dr. Charles Huang's Gulfstream V, tail number N889KH, flew from Bowling Green Warren County Regional Airport in Kentucky to John C Tune Airport in Nashville, Tennessee, on Sunday, October 25, 2026. The flight departed at 20:49 UTC and landed at 21:03 UTC, spending just 14 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 58 nautical miles, or 66 miles.

Bowling Green Warren County Regional Airport has a longest runway of 6,501 feet at an elevation of 547 feet. John C Tune Airport in Nashville has a longest runway of 6,001 feet at an elevation of 495 feet. The aircraft's home base at Van Nuys Airport is 1,548 nautical miles from Nashville.

The aircraft covered that distance at an average ground speed of 243 knots, reaching a top speed of 272 knots and a highest altitude of 3,600 feet. The flight burned an estimated 100 US gallons of fuel, producing about 956 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 2,366 miles. N889KH is a 1998 Gulfstream V, the original ultra-long-range Gulfstream, with a range of 6,675 nautical miles, a top speed of Mach 0.885, a ceiling of 51,000 feet, and seating for up to 16 passengers.

In the 30 days before this flight, N889KH visited 22 airports in 5 countries and flew about 19,430 nautical miles. The longest leg in that period was from New York to Van Nuys on September 29, covering 2,143 nautical miles. Over those 30 days, the aircraft made 27 flights, spent 55.1 hours in the air, and produced an estimated 222,257 kilograms of CO2. This was the fourth landing at Nashville in the tracked window of 39 flights between September 19 and October 25, 2026. The previous landing at Nashville was 35 days earlier, on September 20. The aircraft is based at Van Nuys Airport in California, and its most common destinations in that window were Teterboro, Nashville, and Van Nuys. Other tracked aircraft that landed at Nashville in the 24 hours before this landing included Kid Rock's Bombardier Challenger 600, about 20 hours earlier, and Jimmy Haslam's Dassault Falcon 2000EX, about 6 hours earlier.

Before this flight, the aircraft had spent about one hour on the ground at Bowling Green. The aircraft is managed by Pegasus Elite Aviation, which markets it for charter, so some flights may carry paying passengers rather than the owner.

Dr. Charles Huang is a Chinese-American investor and philanthropist based in Pasadena, California. He founded Pasaca Capital Inc., a private-equity firm, and Innova Medical Group, which became a major distributor of COVID-19 tests. Through the Charles Huang Foundation, he has donated millions to universities and hospitals in the United States, United Kingdom, and China. No public events or meetings tied to Dr. Charles Huang were found near Nashville on this date.

The flight used just 1 percent of the aircraft's range, a short hop for a jet built to cross oceans. N889KH remains at Nashville as of its last tracked position.