Elon Musk's Gulfstream G450 N450GG flies from Temple to Harlingen in 43 minutes

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G450, tail N450GG, flew from Draughon Miller Central Texas Regional Airport in Temple to Valley International Airport in Harlingen on Monday, October 26, 2026. The aircraft departed at 20:22 UTC and landed at 21:05 UTC, spending 43 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 296 nautical miles, or about 341 miles.

The aircraft used only 7 percent of its total range on this flight. Temple's Draughon Miller Central Texas Regional Airport has a longest runway of 7,000 feet at an elevation of 682 feet. Valley International Airport in Harlingen has a longest runway of 9,400 feet at an elevation of 36 feet.

The flight averaged a ground speed of 412 knots and reached a top speed of 459 knots at a maximum altitude of 34,000 feet. The aircraft burned an estimated 273 US gallons of fuel, producing about 2.6 metric tons of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 6,493 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 fourth landing at Harlingen in the tracking window from October 9 to October 26, 2026, for all of Elon Musk's aircraft. The previous landing at Harlingen was on October 22 by the same aircraft, N450GG, which arrived from Amarillo. Harlingen is about 238 nautical miles from Austin, 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.

Before this flight, the same aircraft, N450GG, landed at Harlingen on October 23 after a 41-minute flight from Matamoros, Mexico, covering 330 nautical miles. That flight followed an earlier trip on October 22 from Amarillo to Harlingen lasting 1 hour 7 minutes over 573 nautical miles.

Starbase is the company's rocket development and launch facility, and the aircraft's arrival at Harlingen follows a pattern of shuttling between Austin, the Bay Area, and the Texas Gulf Coast.

In the 30-day tracking window before this flight, the owner's five Gulfstreams made 39 flights covering about 45,216 nautical miles. The most common destination was Los Angeles with eight landings, followed by Austin with six 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.

Two days before this flight, on October 24, another of the owner's Gulfstreams, tail N628TS, flew from Austin to Los Angeles in 2 hours 32 minutes over 1,072 nautical miles. On October 22, the new Gulfstream G800, tail N8628, flew from Savannah to Austin in 2 hours 4 minutes over 854 nautical miles.

The flight ended at an airport that serves the Brownsville and Harlingen area, close to SpaceX's Starbase operations. This was the first tracked flight for this aircraft after a four-day layover in Temple.