Dr. Charles Huang's Gulfstream V N889KH flies 7 nm in 10 minutes at Van Nuys

Dr. Charles Huang's Gulfstream V, tail number N889KH, flew from Van Nuys Airport to Van Nuys Airport on Monday, November 9, 2026. The flight departed at 17:33 UTC and landed at 17:43 UTC, spending 10 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 7 nautical miles, or 8 miles.

The aircraft covered that distance at an average ground speed of 237 knots, reaching a highest altitude of 3,850 feet. The flight burned an estimated 69 US gallons of fuel, producing about 660 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 1,634 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.

The aircraft's estimated fuel burn is 420 US gallons per hour. Van Nuys Airport has a longest runway of 8,001 feet at an elevation of 802 feet. In the 30 days before this flight, N889KH flew 27 flights totaling 61.3 hours in the air, producing about 247,272 kg of CO2.

This was the fourth landing at Van Nuys in the tracked window of 39 flights between September 28 and November 7, 2026. The previous landing at Van Nuys was 3 days earlier, on November 7. The aircraft is based at Van Nuys Airport in California, and its most common destinations in that window were Teterboro, Miami, and Van Nuys. In the 30 days before this flight, N889KH visited 24 airports in 8 countries and flew about 25,226 nautical miles. The longest leg in that period was from Mar del Plata to Miami on October 29, covering 4,049 nautical miles. Ferrari of Fort Lauderdale's Bombardier Challenger 600 landed at Van Nuys about 19 hours before this flight.

Recent flights by the same owner include a 47-minute hop from Las Vegas to Van Nuys on November 7, covering 197 nautical miles. On November 6, the jet flew from Teterboro to Las Vegas in 4 hours 30 minutes over 1,933 nautical miles, and earlier that day from Hamilton to Teterboro in 2 hours 3 minutes over 680 nautical miles. On November 4, it traveled from Shannon to Hamilton in 6 hours 1 minute over 2,675 nautical miles, and from Kenley to Shannon in 1 hour 2 minutes over 342 nautical miles.

On November 1, the aircraft flew from Teterboro to Kenley in 6 hours 33 minutes over 3,013 nautical miles. On October 31, it went from Fort Lauderdale to Teterboro in 2 hours 23 minutes over 945 nautical miles. On October 29, it made a 9-minute flight from Miami to Miami covering 9 nautical miles.

Dr. Charles Huang is a Chinese-American investor and philanthropist based in Pasadena, California. He founded Pasaca Capital Inc., a Pasadena private-equity house, and Innova Medical Group, which became one of the world's largest distributors of rapid COVID tests. The aircraft is registered to Innova Aviation LLC at 800 E Colorado Blvd, Suite 888, Pasadena, the same building that houses Innova Medical Group and Innova NanoJet. The jet is managed by Pegasus Elite Aviation, which markets it for charter, so some flights may carry paying passengers rather than the owner.

This flight used less than 1 percent of the aircraft's range, a short hop for a jet built to cross oceans. N889KH remains at Van Nuys as of its last tracked position.