Elon Musk's Gulfstream G650ER N628TS flies from Austin to San Jose in 3 hours 5 minutes

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G650ER, tail N628TS, flew from Austin Bergstrom International Airport to Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport on Friday, October 30, 2026. The aircraft departed at 23:09 UTC and landed at 02:14 UTC, spending 3 hours 5 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 1,281 nautical miles, or about 1,475 miles.

The flight covered 1,281 nm at an average ground speed of 415 knots, reaching a top ground speed of 520 knots and a highest altitude of 43,025 feet. The aircraft burned an estimated 1,452 US gallons of fuel, producing about 14.0 metric tons of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 34,533 miles. The Gulfstream G650ER is an ultra long range jet with a range of 7,500 nm, a top speed of Mach 0.925, a ceiling of 51,000 feet, and seating for up to 19 passengers.

This was the fourth landing at San Jose by one of Elon Musk's aircraft in the tracked window from October 15 to October 30, 2026. The last landing at San Jose was on October 29, 2026, by the same Gulfstream G650ER. Elon Musk's home base is Austin Bergstrom International Airport, and his usual destinations include Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport, Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport, and Los Angeles International Airport. In the 30 days before this flight, his fleet of five Gulfstreams visited 21 airports in 3 countries and flew about 34,034 nm. Another tracked aircraft, a Gulfstream V belonging to Jim Carrey, landed at San Jose about 4 hours earlier.

The most common destinations were Austin and Los Angeles, each with 7 landings, and Harlingen with 3 landings. The longest leg in that period was a 4,716 nm flight from Luton to Los Angeles on October 16, 2026, flown by the Gulfstream G550 tail N272BG.

No public events tied to Elon Musk or his companies were reported near San Jose on the day of this flight.

The aircraft had been on the ground at Austin for about 8 hours before departing for San Jose, following a previous tracked landing on October 30, 2026. This flight used 17 percent of the G650ER's range, reflecting the distance between Musk's home base and the Bay Area.

Before this flight, N628TS had made a 44-minute trip from Brownsville to Austin on October 30, 2026, covering 268 nm. On October 29, it flew from Los Angeles to San Jose in 45 minutes over 269 nm, and earlier that day it made short hops between Bakersfield and Los Angeles and from Mountain View to Los Angeles. Another aircraft in the fleet, the Gulfstream G450 tail N450GG, flew from Matamoros to Temple on October 28 and from Austin to Dulles on the same day.