Elon Musk's Gulfstream G650ER N628TS flies from Mountain View to Los Angeles in 1 hour

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G650ER, tail N628TS, flew from Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View to Los Angeles International Airport on Thursday, October 29, 2026. The aircraft departed at 02:14 UTC and landed at 03:14 UTC, spending exactly 1 hour in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 277 nautical miles, or about 318 miles.

The departure airport, Moffett Federal Airfield, has a longest runway of 9,197 feet and sits at an elevation of 32 feet. Los Angeles International Airport has a longest runway of 12,894 feet and an elevation of 125 feet. The distance from the owner's home base in Austin to Los Angeles is 1,077 nautical miles.

The flight averaged a ground speed of 277 knots and reached a top speed of 471 knots at a maximum altitude of 31,000 feet. The aircraft burned an estimated 470 US gallons of fuel, producing about 4,516 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 11,179 miles. The Gulfstream G650ER is an ultra long range jet with a range of 7,500 nautical miles, a ceiling of 51,000 feet, and seating for up to 19 passengers. The flight used only 4 percent of the aircraft's range.

The Gulfstream G650ER has a top speed of Mach 0.925, or 516 knots. In the 30-day tracking window, the owner's aircraft made 7 landings at Los Angeles, with the most recent before this flight on October 24.

This was the eighth landing at Los Angeles in the tracking window from October 12 to October 28, 2026, for all of Elon Musk's aircraft. The previous landing at Los Angeles was on October 24 by the same aircraft, N628TS, which arrived from Austin. Los Angeles is one of the usual destinations on file for Elon Musk, and his other frequent destinations include San Jose, 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. Two other tracked aircraft also landed at Los Angeles in the 24 hours before this flight: a Canada Goose Bombardier Global 6000 about 9 hours earlier, and a SpaceX Boeing 737-800 about 5 hours earlier.

Los Angeles is a frequent destination for his aircraft, and the city is home to SpaceX's headquarters in Hawthorne and Tesla's design studio. No public events or meetings tied to Elon Musk or his companies were reported near Los Angeles on the day of this flight, according to a search of local news. The aircraft had been on the ground at Mountain View for about 11 hours before departing for Los Angeles, following a previous tracked landing on October 28.

On October 28, another aircraft in the owner's fleet, a Gulfstream G450 with tail N450GG, flew from Dulles to Port Isabel in 3 hours 17 minutes covering 1,259 nautical miles. That same day, it also flew from Austin to Dulles in 2 hours 33 minutes covering 1,126 nautical miles, and from Matamoros to Austin in 49 minutes covering 274 nautical miles.

This flight ended at a regular destination for the owner's fleet after a brief trip from Mountain View. The aircraft had flown from Los Angeles to Mountain View earlier on October 28, a 46-minute flight covering 277 nautical miles. In the 30-day tracking window, the owner's aircraft visited 22 airports in 3 countries and flew about 42,951 nautical miles.