Dan Towriss's Gulfstream G650 makes 31-minute hop from Avon Park to Fort Lauderdale

Dan Towriss's Gulfstream G650, tail number N60CD, flew from MacDill Air Force Base Auxiliary Field in Avon Park, Florida, to Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport on Thursday, November 5, 2026. The flight departed at 19:53 UTC and landed at 20:24 UTC, spending 31 minutes in the air. The aircraft covered a great-circle distance of 108 nautical miles, or 124 miles, at an average ground speed of 208 knots. The highest altitude reached was 15,050 feet, and the top ground speed was 420 knots.

The aircraft departed from Avon Park's MacDill Air Force Base Auxiliary Field, which has a longest runway of 8,000 feet and sits at 68 feet elevation. It landed at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport, where the longest runway measures 9,000 feet and the elevation is 9 feet. The distance from Dan Towriss's home base at Indianapolis International Airport to Fort Lauderdale is 875 nautical miles.

The 108-nautical-mile trip used about 2 percent of the Gulfstream G650's 7,000-nautical-mile range. The aircraft, a 2019 build with serial number 6402, typically seats 12 passengers and can carry up to 19. It has a top speed of Mach 0.925 and a service ceiling of 51,000 feet. Celebplanes estimates the flight burned about 222 US gallons of fuel, producing roughly 2,134 kilograms of CO2, equivalent to driving a car 5,283 miles.

This was the second landing at Fort Lauderdale in the tracked window of 40 flights since August 14, 2026. The previous landing there was on October 15, 2026, 21 days earlier. Towriss's home base is Indianapolis International Airport, and his most common destinations in the window were Indianapolis Executive Airport with 11 landings, Indianapolis International with 4, and Teterboro with 4. In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited 14 airports in 4 countries and flew about 19,727 nautical miles, with the longest leg being 5,832 nautical miles from Honolulu to Seletar on October 7.

Before this flight, the aircraft had been on the ground at Avon Park for about two hours. In the 30 days prior, the Gulfstream G650 completed 15 flights totaling 43.8 hours in the air. Celebplanes estimates those flights produced roughly 181,010 kilograms of CO2. The aircraft, which holds more than 110 speed records and was launched in 2005, burns an estimated 430 US gallons of fuel per hour.

Dan Towriss is the CEO of the Cadillac Formula 1 Team, which joined the F1 grid for the 2026 season under General Motors branding. He is also the chief executive of Group 1001, the Indiana-based insurance and annuities group behind the Gainbridge brand, and the founder of TWG Motorsports, which owns Andretti Global, Wayne Taylor Racing, and Spire Motorsports.

Recent flights by the same owner include a 1-hour-41-minute trip from Indianapolis to Avon Park on November 5, covering 792 nautical miles. On November 2, the aircraft flew from Toluca to Indianapolis in 3 hours 7 minutes over 1,452 nautical miles. Other recent legs include Austin to Saltillo on October 27 and multiple hops between Florida airports on October 15, including Fort Lauderdale to Orlando and Orlando to Jacksonville.

The aircraft's recent flight history shows a pattern of short hops in Florida and longer trips across the United States and internationally. This 31-minute flight from a military auxiliary field to a major South Florida airport fits that pattern of regional movement. The next tracked flight will show where the aircraft goes from here.