Eli Lilly's Gulfstream G500 N307EL lands in Madrid from Indianapolis

Eli Lilly and Company's Gulfstream G500, tail number N307EL, flew from Indianapolis International Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport on Sunday, October 25, 2026. The aircraft departed at 2:19 p.m. UTC and landed at 9:26 p.m. UTC, spending 7 hours and 8 minutes in the air.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 3,648 nautical miles, or 4,198 miles. The aircraft reached a top altitude of 45,025 feet and a top ground speed of 553 knots, with an average ground speed of 512 knots. Our estimate puts the fuel burned at about 2,709 US gallons, producing about 26,024 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 64,415 miles. The Gulfstream G500 has a range of 5,300 nautical miles, a top speed of Mach 0.925, a ceiling of 51,000 feet, and typically seats 10 passengers.

This was the first landing at Madrid by any of Eli Lilly's three Gulfstream G500s in the tracked window from October 7 to October 23, 2026. The home base for all three aircraft is Indianapolis International Airport, and usual destinations include Washington Dulles, Newark, London Heathrow, Frankfurt, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Chicago O'Hare. Before this flight, N307EL had been on the ground for about 39 hours after landing in Indianapolis from Toronto on October 23. Another tracked aircraft, a Gulfstream G650ER belonging to Exxon Mobil, landed at Madrid about 7 hours earlier.

In the 30 days before this flight, Eli Lilly's three Gulfstream G500s flew 40 flights totaling 73.0 hours in the air. Those flights covered about 30,352 nautical miles and visited 24 airports in three countries. The longest leg in that period was a 1,791-nautical-mile trip from Dulles to Las Vegas on October 8, flown by N308EL.

Eli Lilly and Company is a pharmaceutical giant based in Indianapolis, best known for its GLP-1 drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound. The company has a growing presence in Europe, and Madrid is a major European hub for business and regulatory activity. A web search did not find a specific public event or meeting tied to Eli Lilly in Madrid on this date.

Eli Lilly and Company operates three Gulfstream G500s, including N307EL, N308EL, and N309EL. The company reported first-quarter 2026 revenue of $19.8 billion, a 56 percent increase driven by its blockbuster drugs.

The aircraft burned an estimated 380 US gallons of fuel per hour. Indianapolis International Airport, the home base, has a longest runway of 11,200 feet at an elevation of 797 feet. Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport has a longest runway of 14,271 feet at an elevation of 1,998 feet. The great-circle distance from the home base to Madrid is 3,646 nautical miles.

The flight from Indianapolis to Madrid used about 69 percent of the aircraft's range.