Elon Musk's Gulfstream G800 N8628 flies from Savannah to Austin in 2 hours 4 minutes

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G800, tail N8628, flew from Savannah Hilton Head International Airport in Georgia to Austin Bergstrom International Airport in Texas on Thursday, October 22, 2026. The aircraft departed at 19:16 UTC and landed at 21:20 UTC, spending 2 hours and 4 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 854 nautical miles, or about 983 miles.

The aircraft used 10 percent of its total range on this leg. Savannah's longest runway is 9,351 feet at an elevation of 50 feet. Austin's longest runway is 12,250 feet at an elevation of 542 feet.

The flight averaged a ground speed of 413 knots and reached a top speed of 541 knots at a maximum altitude of 43,000 feet. The aircraft burned an estimated 991 US gallons of fuel, producing about 9.5 metric tons of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 23,575 miles. The Gulfstream G800 is an ultra long range jet with a range of 8,200 nautical miles, a ceiling of 51,000 feet, and seating for up to 19 passengers. It was delivered in February 2025 and is the world's longest-range business jet, certified in April 2025.

This was the fifth landing at Austin in the tracking window from October 7 to October 22, 2026, for all of Elon Musk's aircraft. The previous landing at Austin was on October 20 by a Gulfstream G450, tail N450GG, which arrived from Temple. 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. Other tracked aircraft that landed at Austin in the 24 hours before this flight included a Dassault Falcon 2000LX belonging to Fernando Alonso about 21 hours earlier, a Gulfstream G650ER belonging to IBM about 8 hours earlier, and a Bombardier Global 7500 belonging to Lawrence Stroll under an hour earlier.

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.

The G800 carries Elon Musk's birthday in its tail number. The aircraft was delivered in February 2025 and lacks full PIA protection. Musk banned the @ElonJet account from X after acquiring the platform in 2022.

In the 30-day tracking window, the owner's five Gulfstreams made 39 flights covering about 45,125 nautical miles and 101.3 hours in the air. The most common destination was Los Angeles with seven landings, followed by Austin with five and Harlingen with three. 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. This flight ended at the owner's home base after a brief trip to Savannah, where the aircraft had flown from Hunter Army Air Field earlier the same day, a 46-minute flight covering 15 nautical miles.