Elon Musk's Gulfstream G450 N450GG flies from Amarillo to Harlingen in 1 hour 7 minutes

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G450, tail N450GG, flew from Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport in Amarillo, Texas, to Valley International Airport in Harlingen, Texas, on Thursday, October 22, 2026. The aircraft departed at 23:49 UTC and landed at 00:56 UTC, spending 1 hour 7 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 573 nautical miles, or about 659 miles.

The flight averaged a ground speed of 512 knots and reached a top speed of 523 knots at a maximum altitude of 41,025 feet. The aircraft burned an estimated 425 US gallons of fuel, producing about 4.1 metric tons of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 10,102 miles. The Gulfstream G450 has a range of 4,350 nautical miles, a ceiling of 45,000 feet, and seats up to 16 passengers.

This was the third landing at Harlingen in the tracking window from October 7 to October 22, 2026, for all of Elon Musk's aircraft. The previous landing at Harlingen was on October 20 by the Gulfstream G650ER N628TS, which arrived from Austin. Harlingen is one of the usual destinations on file for Elon Musk, and his other frequent stops include Austin, Los Angeles, San Jose, West Palm Beach, Washington Dulles, and Lubbock. The aircraft had been on the ground for about 4 hours before this flight, following a previous tracked landing at Lubbock earlier on October 22.

Harlingen is about 238 nautical miles from his home base at Austin Bergstrom International Airport. In the 30 days before this flight, the fleet of five aircraft made 39 flights covering about 44,472 nautical miles.

The flight is one of 39 tracked for this owner in the 30 days before October 22, covering about 100.1 hours in the air. The most common destination in that period was Los Angeles with seven landings, followed by Austin with six and Harlingen with three. The longest leg in that window was a Luton to Los Angeles flight of 4,716 nautical miles on October 16 by a Gulfstream G550.

The Gulfstream G450 used about 13 percent of its total range on this flight. The departure airport in Amarillo has a runway 13,502 feet long at an elevation of 3,607 feet. The arrival airport in Harlingen has a runway 9,400 feet long at an elevation of 36 feet.

Earlier on October 22, another aircraft in the fleet, the Gulfstream G800 N8628, flew from Savannah to Austin in 2 hours 4 minutes covering 854 nautical miles. That same day, the G800 also made a 46-minute flight from Savannah to Savannah covering 15 nautical miles.

On October 21, the same G450 N450GG flew from Austin to San Jose in 3 hours 9 minutes covering 1,281 nautical miles. On October 20, the Gulfstream G650ER N628TS flew from Matamoros to Austin in 46 minutes covering 278 nautical miles, then from Austin to Harlingen in 46 minutes covering 221 nautical miles.