Elon Musk's Gulfstream G450 N450GG lands in Lubbock after 552 nm flight from Port Isabel

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G450, tail N450GG, flew from Port Isabel Cameron County Airport in Texas to Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport on Thursday, October 22, 2026. The aircraft departed at 18:22 UTC and landed at 19:35 UTC, spending 1 hour 13 minutes in the air. The flight covered a great-circle distance of 552 nautical miles, or 636 miles.

The Gulfstream G450 averaged a ground speed of 455 knots and reached a top speed of 478 knots at a maximum altitude of 40,000 feet. The aircraft burned an estimated 461 US gallons of fuel, producing about 4.4 metric tons of CO2. That is roughly the same as driving a car 10,973 miles. The Gulfstream G450 is a large business jet with a range of 4,350 nautical miles, a ceiling of 45,000 feet, and seating for up to 16 passengers.

This was the first landing at Lubbock in the tracking window from October 7 to October 22, 2026, for all of Elon Musk's aircraft. 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. Lubbock is listed among the usual destinations on file. The aircraft had spent about 2 hours on the ground before this flight, following a previous tracked landing on October 22. In the 30 days before this flight, the owner's five Gulfstreams made 39 flights covering about 44,844 nautical miles.

The arrival airport, Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport, serves the South Plains area and is a frequent stop for private aircraft tied to business and research operations. No recent public appearances or events linked to Elon Musk or his companies were reported near Lubbock around this date.

The flight ended at an airport that is 297 nautical miles from the owner's home base in Austin.

The Gulfstream G450 used about 13 percent of its total range on this flight. The departure airport in Port Isabel has a longest runway of 8,001 feet at an elevation of 19 feet. The arrival airport in Lubbock has a longest runway of 11,500 feet at an elevation of 3,282 feet.

The most common destinations in that window were Los Angeles with 8 landings, Austin with 5 landings, and Harlingen with 3 landings. The longest leg in those 30 days was from Luton to Los Angeles on October 16, covering 4,716 nautical miles on a Gulfstream G550.

On October 21, the same aircraft flew from Austin to San Jose in 3 hours 9 minutes, covering 1,281 nautical miles. On October 20, it flew from Temple to Austin in 15 minutes, covering 59 nautical miles. Another of the owner's aircraft, a Gulfstream G650ER, flew from Matamoros to Austin on October 20 in 46 minutes, covering 278 nautical miles.