Elon Musk's Gulfstream G650ER N628TS flies from Matamoros to Austin in 46 minutes

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G650ER, tail N628TS, flew from General Servando Canales International Airport in Matamoros, Mexico, to Austin Bergstrom International Airport on Tuesday, October 20, 2026. The aircraft departed at 14:32 UTC and landed at 15:18 UTC, spending 46 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 278 nautical miles, or about 320 miles.

The flight averaged a ground speed of 363 knots and reached a top speed of 491 knots at a maximum altitude of 30,000 feet. The aircraft burned an estimated 359 US gallons of fuel, producing about 3.5 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.

The flight used only 4 percent of the aircraft's range. The departure airport in Matamoros has a longest runway of 7,546 feet at an elevation of 25 feet. Austin's longest runway is 12,250 feet at 542 feet elevation.

This was the fourth landing at Austin in the tracking window from October 5 to October 20, 2026, for all of Elon Musk's aircraft. The previous landing at Austin was on October 19 by the same aircraft, N628TS, which arrived from Point Mugu. 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.

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 brief trip to Matamoros, which is just south of Brownsville, Texas. The aircraft had flown from Austin to Harlingen earlier the same day, a 46-minute flight covering 221 nautical miles. The tail number N628TS is a reference to Elon Musk's June 28 birthday.

In the 30-day tracking window, the owner's five Gulfstreams made 39 flights. The most common destination was Los Angeles with eight landings, followed by Temple with four and Austin with three. The longest leg in that period was a Luton, Luton to Los Angeles flight of 4,716 nautical miles on October 16 by a Gulfstream G550.

On October 19, a Gulfstream G550 flew from Austin to Perryville, covering 598 nautical miles in 1 hour 40 minutes. Another G550 flew from San Jose to Austin that same day, a 2-hour 52-minute trip of 1,281 nautical miles. The owner's fleet also includes a Gulfstream G800 delivered in February 2025.

The flight is one of 39 tracked for this owner in the 30 days before October 20, covering about 54,796 nautical miles and 120.8 hours in the air.