Dubai Royal Wing's Boeing 747-422 A6-HRM returns to Dubai from Morocco

Dubai Royal Wing — Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid's Boeing 747-422, tail A6-HRM, was tracked departing Ouezzane Airport in Beni Malek, Morocco on Friday, November 13, 2026 at 09:28 UTC and landing at Dubai International Airport at 15:48 UTC. The flight lasted 6 hours 21 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 3,265 nautical miles. The aircraft reached a top ground speed of 601 knots and a highest altitude of 39,000 feet. Our estimate puts fuel burn at about 6,344 US gallons, producing roughly 60,947 kilograms of CO2, equivalent to driving a car 150,860 miles.

The aircraft's average ground speed on this leg was 515 knots. The departure field at Ouezzane Airport sits at an elevation of 571 feet. Dubai International Airport, the arrival field, has a longest runway of 14,590 feet and an elevation of 62 feet.

The 747-422 is a long-range airliner built for intercontinental travel. It can seat more than 300 passengers and has a maximum range of about 7,000 nautical miles. The aircraft had spent about 19 hours on the ground in Beni Malek before this trip, with its previous tracked landing on November 12. In the 30 days before this flight, the owner's four aircraft made 11 flights totaling 36.0 hours in the air and covering about 9,446 nautical miles across 9 airports in 6 countries. The longest leg in that window was a 2,389 nm flight from Klagenfurt am Wörthersee to Dubai on October 29, also flown by A6-HRM.

Dubai International Airport is the home base for Dubai Royal Wing — Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid's fleet. In the tracked window from August 29 to November 12, the owner's four aircraft made 40 flights, with 19 landings at Dubai. The most recent landing before this flight was on November 12 by A6-HHH, a Boeing 777-29M LR, which flew from Fujairah to Dubai. Other common destinations in that window included London Stansted with 7 landings and Navoi with 4 landings. The fleet's usual destinations on file include Zayed International Airport in Abu Dhabi, King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Paris-Le Bourget, London Heathrow, Munich, and Hong Kong.

In the days before this flight, A6-HRM flew from Dubai to Beni Malek on November 12, a trip of 4 hours 27 minutes covering 1,770 nautical miles. On November 5, the same aircraft flew a 57-minute local flight from Dubai to Dubai, covering 347 nautical miles. Earlier, on November 4, it flew from Abu Musa to Navoi in 2 hours 54 minutes over 979 nautical miles.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is Prime Minister and Vice President of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. He operates a personal fleet through the Dubai Royal Wing, flying on DUB1 callsign. Sheikh Mohammed is an avid equestrian and horse racing owner, and his flights frequently track between Dubai, the UK, and European racing venues. Morocco has a growing horse racing scene, and the Ouezzane region is known for its rural landscape. No public appearance by Sheikh Mohammed in Morocco was confirmed at the time of this flight, but the stopover in Beni Malek may have been a fuel or crew change point on a longer journey.

The 747-422 now sits on the apron at Dubai, back at its home base after a round trip that included a brief stop in northern Morocco. Whether the ruler was aboard is known only to the flight manifest.