Elon Musk's Gulfstream G450 N450GG flies a 14-minute hop at Los Angeles

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G450, tail N450GG, flew a short hop at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday, October 21, 2026. The aircraft departed KLAX at 23:27 UTC and landed back at KLAX at 23:41 UTC, spending 14 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two points was 4 nautical miles, or about 4 miles. This was a repositioning flight within the same airport.

The flight averaged a ground speed of 16 knots and reached a top ground speed of 212 knots at a maximum altitude of 5,100 feet. The aircraft burned an estimated 87 US gallons of fuel, producing about 831 kg of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 2,058 miles. The Gulfstream G450 is a large cabin jet with a range of 4,350 nautical miles, a ceiling of 45,000 feet, and seating for up to 16 passengers. It entered service in 2004 and is an evolution of the GIV.

This was the ninth landing at Los Angeles in the tracking window from October 6 to October 21, 2026, for all of Elon Musk's aircraft. The previous landing at Los Angeles was on October 21, about 17 hours earlier, also by N450GG. Los Angeles is a common destination for the fleet, along with Austin and Harlingen. The aircraft had flown from San Jose to Los Angeles earlier that same day, a 1-hour 3-minute flight covering 271 nautical miles.

The aircraft's home base on file is Austin Bergstrom International Airport, about 1,077 nautical miles from Los Angeles. Los Angeles International Airport has a longest runway of 12,894 feet and sits at an elevation of 125 feet. In the tracking window from October 6 to October 21, the owner's aircraft made nine landings at Los Angeles, five at Austin, and three at Harlingen.

Los Angeles is home to SpaceX's Hawthorne headquarters and Tesla's design studio. A SpaceX Boeing 737-800 also landed at Los Angeles about 2 hours before this flight, though there is no indication the two aircraft were connected.

The flight is one of 40 tracked for this owner in the 30 days before October 21, covering about 51,987 nautical miles and 115.4 hours in the air. The longest leg in that period was a Luton to Los Angeles flight of 4,716 nautical miles on October 16 by a Gulfstream G550. The fleet includes five Gulfstreams operated through Falcon Landing LLC, including the primary G650ER N628TS and the new G800 N8628 delivered in February 2025.

Before this flight, the same Gulfstream G450 flew from Austin to San Jose on October 21, a 3-hour 9-minute trip covering 1,281 nautical miles. On October 20, it flew from Temple to Austin in 15 minutes, covering 59 nautical miles. The owner's primary Gulfstream G650ER flew from Matamoros to Austin on October 20, a 46-minute flight of 278 nautical miles, and earlier that day from Austin to Harlingen, a 46-minute flight of 221 nautical miles.

The aircraft's brief movement at Los Angeles fits a pattern of frequent shuttling between the West Coast and Texas. The next leg was not announced, but the fleet's usual routes point to Austin or Brownsville as likely destinations.