Elon Musk's Gulfstream G450 N450GG lands in Austin after 49-minute flight from Matamoros

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G450, tail N450GG, flew from General Servando Canales International Airport in Matamoros, Mexico, to Austin Bergstrom International Airport on Wednesday, October 28, 2026. The aircraft departed at 02:52 UTC and landed at 03:41 UTC, spending 49 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 274 nautical miles, or about 316 miles.

The flight averaged a ground speed of 334 knots and reached a top speed of 496 knots at a maximum altitude of 32,000 feet. The aircraft burned an estimated 312 US gallons of fuel, producing about 3.0 metric tons of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 7,409 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. The flight used only 6 percent of the aircraft's range.

This was the seventh landing at Austin in the tracking window from October 10 to October 27, 2026, for all of Elon Musk's aircraft. The previous landing at Austin was on October 22 by the Gulfstream G800 N8628, which arrived from Savannah. 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. In the 30-day window, the owner's five Gulfstreams made 39 flights, with the most common destination being Los Angeles with eight landings. Another tracked aircraft, a Drury Development Embraer Praetor 600, landed at Austin about 14 hours earlier.

The aircraft's arrival follows a pattern of shuttling between Austin, the Bay Area, and Starbase. On October 22, the same aircraft flew from Port Isabel to Lubbock, and on October 23 it flew from Matamoros to Temple.

This flight ended at the owner's home base after a brief trip to Matamoros, which is just south of Brownsville, Texas. The aircraft had flown from Baltimore to Port Isabel earlier on October 27, a 3-hour 28-minute flight covering 1,298 nautical miles. In the 30-day tracking window, the owner's aircraft visited 24 airports in 3 countries and flew about 44,361 nautical miles.

The aircraft's previous landing was at Port Isabel about one hour before this flight. The Gulfstream G450 is an evolution of the GIV with aerodynamic improvements. Its top speed is Mach 0.88, or 476 knots. The estimated fuel burn is 380 US gallons per hour.

The departure airport in Matamoros has a longest runway of 7,546 feet at an elevation of 25 feet. The arrival airport in Austin has a longest runway of 12,250 feet at an elevation of 542 feet.

In the 30-day tracking window, the owner's aircraft made six landings at Austin before this flight. The most common destinations for all of the owner's aircraft in that window were Los Angeles with eight landings, Austin with six, and Harlingen with four.