Elon Musk's Gulfstream G650ER N628TS flies from Point Mugu to Austin in 2h 12m

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G650ER, tail N628TS, flew from Point Mugu Naval Air Station in California to Austin Bergstrom International Airport on Monday, October 19, 2026. The aircraft departed at 14:00 UTC and landed at 16:12 UTC, spending 2 hours and 12 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 1,104 nautical miles, or about 1,271 miles.

The departure field at Point Mugu Naval Air Station has a longest runway of 11,102 feet and sits at an elevation of 13 feet. The arrival field at Austin Bergstrom International Airport has a longest runway of 12,250 feet and an elevation of 542 feet. This flight used about 15 percent of the aircraft's range.

The flight averaged a ground speed of 504 knots and reached a top speed of 568 knots at a maximum altitude of 41,025 feet. The aircraft burned an estimated 1,031 US gallons of fuel, producing about 9.9 metric tons of CO2. The Gulfstream G650ER is an ultra long range jet with a range of 7,500 nautical miles, a ceiling of 51,000 feet, and seating for up to 19 passengers.

This was the third landing at Austin in the tracking window from October 1 to October 19, 2026, for all of Elon Musk's aircraft. The previous landing at Austin was earlier the same day by the Gulfstream G550 N272BG, which arrived from San Jose. Austin is the home base on file for Elon Musk, and his usual destinations include Brownsville, San Jose, Los Angeles, West Palm Beach, Washington Dulles, and Lubbock. Another tracked aircraft, a Gulfstream G600 belonging to Antonio Gracias, landed at Austin about 23 hours before this flight.

In the tracking window from October 1 to October 19, 2026, the owner's aircraft made 39 flights. The most common destinations were Los Angeles with 9 landings, Temple with 4 landings, and Mountain View with 3 landings. The longest leg in that period was a 6,016 nautical mile flight from San Jose to Denizli on October 3, flown by the same Gulfstream G650ER.

Austin is the operational hub for the TERAFAB chipmaking joint venture between Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, a $20 to $25 billion project announced in March 2026, as reported by Bloomberg and The Business Times. The aircraft's arrival follows a pattern of shuttling between Austin, the Bay Area, and Starbase.

This flight ended at the owner's home base after a 41-hour layover in Los Angeles, where the aircraft had landed from Fargo on October 17. The aircraft's previous long leg was a 7-hour 28-minute flight from Luton to Fargo on October 17. The tail number N628TS is a reference to Elon Musk's June 28 birthday.

The owner's fleet includes five Gulfstreams through Falcon Landing LLC. The Gulfstream G550 with tail N272BG flew from Los Angeles to San Jose on October 18, a 52-minute trip covering 269 nautical miles. That same aircraft flew from Luton to Los Angeles on October 16, a 10-hour 29-minute flight of 4,716 nautical miles.

The flight is one of 39 tracked for this owner in the 30 days before October 19, covering about 60,234 nautical miles and 131.3 hours in the air.