Elon Musk's Gulfstream G650ER N628TS flies from San Jose to Los Angeles in 1 hour 1 minute

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G650ER, tail N628TS, flew from Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday, October 31, 2026. The aircraft departed at 19:05 UTC and landed at 20:06 UTC, spending 1 hour 1 minute in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 269 nautical miles, or about 309 miles.

The flight averaged a ground speed of 265 knots and reached a top speed of 479 knots at a maximum altitude of 39,025 feet. The aircraft burned an estimated 475 US gallons of fuel, producing about 4.6 metric tons of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 11,306 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. The flight used only 4 percent of the aircraft's range.

This was the seventh landing at Los Angeles in the tracking window from October 19 to October 31, 2026, for all of Elon Musk's aircraft. The previous landing at Los Angeles was earlier on October 31 by the Gulfstream G550 N272BG, which arrived from Perryville. 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 34 flights, with the most common destination being Austin with seven landings. Another tracked aircraft, a Bombardier Global 7500 belonging to Stan Kroenke, landed at Los Angeles about 18 hours earlier.

Los Angeles is a frequent destination for SpaceX and Tesla business, and the aircraft's arrival follows a pattern of shuttling between California and Texas. In the 30-day tracking window, the owner's aircraft visited 19 airports in 2 countries and flew about 21,420 nautical miles. The longest leg in that period was a 1,410-nautical-mile flight from Perryville to Los Angeles on October 31 by the Gulfstream G550 N272BG.

The aircraft's previous landing was at San Jose about one hour before this flight, following a 30-minute hop from Los Angeles earlier on October 31. The departure airport in San Jose has a longest runway of 11,000 feet at an elevation of 62 feet. The arrival airport in Los Angeles has a longest runway of 12,894 feet at an elevation of 125 feet.

The aircraft's home base is Austin Bergstrom International Airport, 1,077 nautical miles from Los Angeles. Los Angeles was second with six landings, and San Jose was third with five.

Before this flight, N628TS flew from Hollister to San Jose in 11 minutes, covering 28 nautical miles. That same day, it had already flown from San Jose to Los Angeles in 54 minutes over 271 nautical miles. On October 30, it flew from Austin to San Jose in 3 hours 5 minutes over 1,281 nautical miles.

This flight ended at a frequent destination for the owner's fleet, after a brief trip to San Jose from Los Angeles earlier in the day.