Elon Musk's Gulfstream G650ER N628TS flies from Hollister to San Jose in 11 minutes

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G650ER, tail N628TS, flew from Hollister Municipal Airport to Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport on Saturday, October 31, 2026. The aircraft departed at 17:58 UTC and landed at 18:09 UTC, spending 11 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 28 nautical miles, or about 32 miles.

The flight averaged a ground speed of 151 knots and reached a top speed of 269 knots at a maximum altitude of 5,525 feet. The aircraft burned an estimated 88 US gallons of fuel, producing about 842 kg of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 2,083 miles. The Gulfstream G650ER is an ultra long range business jet with a range of 7,500 nautical miles, a ceiling of 51,000 feet, and seating for up to 19 passengers.

This was the sixth landing at San Jose in the tracking window from October 18 to October 31, 2026, for all of Elon Musk's aircraft. The previous landing at San Jose was on October 31 by the same aircraft, which arrived from Los Angeles about 30 minutes before this flight. Austin is the home base on file for Elon Musk, and his usual destinations include Brownsville, Los Angeles, West Palm Beach, Washington Dulles, and Lubbock. In the 30-day window, the owner's five Gulfstreams made 33 flights, with the most common destination being Austin with seven landings. Another tracked aircraft, a Gulfstream V belonging to Jim Carrey, landed at San Jose about 20 hours earlier.

San Jose is near Silicon Valley, where Tesla has its engineering headquarters and xAI operates. A web search found no scheduled public appearances or events tied to Elon Musk or his companies near San Jose on this date.

The flight ended at San Jose after a brief hop from Hollister, a general aviation airport about 28 nautical miles south of San Jose.

The aircraft's top speed is Mach 0.925, or 516 knots. It burns an estimated 470 US gallons of fuel per hour. The departure airport, Hollister Municipal, has a longest runway of 6,350 feet at an elevation of 230 feet. San Jose's longest runway is 11,000 feet at 62 feet elevation. The distance from the home base in Austin to San Jose is 1,281 nautical miles.

The most common destinations were Austin with seven landings, Los Angeles with five, and San Jose with five. The longest leg in that period was a 1,323-nautical-mile flight from Matamoros to Baltimore on October 27, flown by the Gulfstream G450 with tail N450GG.

Earlier on October 31, the same aircraft flew from San Jose to Los Angeles, a 54-minute trip covering 271 nautical miles. On October 30, it flew from Austin to San Jose in 3 hours 5 minutes over 1,281 nautical miles, and earlier that day from Brownsville to Austin in 44 minutes over 268 nautical miles. On October 29, it flew from Los Angeles to San Jose in 45 minutes over 269 nautical miles.