Elon Musk's Gulfstream G450 N450GG lands in Temple after 41-minute flight from Matamoros

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G450, tail number N450GG, flew from General Servando Canales International Airport in Matamoros, Mexico, to Draughon Miller Central Texas Regional Airport in Temple, Texas, on Friday, October 23, 2026. The aircraft departed at 01:36 UTC and landed at 02:17 UTC, spending 41 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 330 nautical miles, or about 380 miles.

The flight averaged a ground speed of 478 knots and reached a top speed of 480 knots at a maximum altitude of 30,000 feet. The aircraft burned an estimated 262 US gallons of fuel, producing about 2.5 metric tons of CO2. 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 third landing at Temple in the tracking window from October 7 to October 22, 2026, for all of Elon Musk's aircraft. The previous landing at Temple was on October 16 by the same aircraft, N450GG, which arrived from an earlier flight. Temple is 59 nautical miles from the owner's home base at Austin Bergstrom International Airport, and his usual destinations include Brownsville, San Jose, Los Angeles, West Palm Beach, Washington Dulles, and Lubbock.

Temple is near Austin, which 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 near the owner's home base after a brief trip to Matamoros, which is just south of Brownsville, Texas. The aircraft had flown from Amarillo to Harlingen earlier the same day, a 1-hour 7-minute flight covering 573 nautical miles. In the 30-day tracking window, the owner's five Gulfstreams made 39 flights covering about 44,768 nautical miles and 100.4 hours in the air.

The Gulfstream G450 is an evolution of the GIV with aerodynamic improvements. It has a top speed of Mach 0.88, or 476 knots. This flight used 8 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. The arrival airport in Temple has a longest runway of 7,000 feet at an elevation of 682 feet.

The most common destinations in that window were Los Angeles with 7 landings, Austin with 6 landings, and Harlingen with 4 landings. The longest leg in those 30 days was from Luton to Los Angeles on October 16, covering 4,716 nautical miles, flown by the Gulfstream G550 with tail number N272BG.

Recent flights by the same owner include a Gulfstream G800 flight from Savannah to Austin on October 22, covering 854 nautical miles in 2 hours 4 minutes. Another flight on October 22 saw the G800 fly from Savannah to Savannah, a 15-nautical-mile hop lasting 46 minutes. On October 21, the same G450 in this story flew from Austin to San Jose, a 3-hour 9-minute trip over 1,281 nautical miles.