Dick's Sporting Goods Global 6500 flies Pittsburgh to Paris in 6 hours 28 minutes

Dick's Sporting Goods's Bombardier Global 6500, tail number N717DX, flew from Pittsburgh International Airport (KPIT) to Paris-Le Bourget International Airport (LFPB) on Thursday, October 22, 2026. The flight departed at 11:17 UTC and landed at 17:45 UTC, spending 6 hours and 28 minutes in the air. It was the first tracked landing at Paris for any of Dick's Sporting Goods's two aircraft in the previous 30 days.

The Bombardier Global 6500 can reach a top speed of Mach 0.90, or 516 knots, and a ceiling of 51,000 feet. During this flight, the aircraft reached a top ground speed of 595 knots. Pittsburgh International Airport's longest runway is 11,500 feet at an elevation of 1,203 feet. Paris-Le Bourget International Airport's longest runway is 9,843 feet at an elevation of 218 feet.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 3,388 nautical miles, or 3,899 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 524 knots and reached a highest altitude of 39,025 feet. Based on our fuel burn estimate of 430 US gallons per hour, the flight used about 2,781 US gallons of fuel, producing an estimated 26.7 metric tons of CO2. The Bombardier Global 6500 has a range of 6,600 nautical miles and can seat up to 17 passengers, so this flight used 51 percent of its maximum range.

Dick's Sporting Goods's home base is Pittsburgh International Airport. Its usual destinations on file include Teterboro, West Palm Beach, Las Vegas, Miami, Washington Dulles and Chicago O'Hare. Before this transatlantic trip, N717DX had flown from Boston to Pittsburgh on October 21, and from Pittsburgh to Boston earlier that same day. The other aircraft on file for Dick's Sporting Goods, a Gulfstream G280 registered as N345DX, had been active in the preceding days with flights between White Plains, New York, and Pittsburgh, and between Oceanside, California, and Pittsburgh.

Dick's Sporting Goods is the largest sporting-goods retailer in the United States, with roughly 850 stores. It was founded by Dick Stack and led for decades by the Stack family, and it is headquartered in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. Paris-Le Bourget is a business aviation airport that serves the Paris region. No public events or meetings tied to Dick's Sporting Goods were found in the Paris area around the date of this flight.

The flight from Pittsburgh to Paris was the longest leg flown by either of Dick's Sporting Goods's aircraft in the previous 30 days, except for a Zurich-to-Pittsburgh flight on September 24 that covered 3,646 nautical miles. In the 30 days before this flight, the two aircraft together made 37 flights, spent 55.1 hours in the air, and produced an estimated 175,235 kilograms of CO2.

The most common destinations in that window were Pittsburgh with 17 landings, New York with 3 landings, and Boston with 2 landings. Before this flight, the aircraft had been on the ground for about 13 hours since its previous tracked landing at Pittsburgh on October 21.

The Bombardier Global 6500 is a 2023-build ultra-long-range jet powered by Pearl engines and equipped with an upgraded wing for all-weather performance. It is registered to DSG Finance LLC in Coraopolis and managed by Solairus Aviation.