Elon Musk's Gulfstream G650ER N628TS flies from Los Angeles to Austin in 2 hours 6 minutes

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G650ER, tail N628TS, flew from Los Angeles International Airport to Austin Bergstrom International Airport on Saturday, October 31, 2026. The aircraft departed at 20:28 UTC and landed at 22:34 UTC, spending 2 hours and 6 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 1,074 nautical miles, or about 1,236 miles.

The flight averaged a ground speed of 512 knots and reached a top speed of 630 knots at a maximum altitude of 41,025 feet. The aircraft burned an estimated 987 US gallons of fuel, producing about 9.5 metric tons of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 23,460 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 14 percent of the aircraft's range.

This was the seventh landing at Austin in the tracking window from October 19 to October 31, 2026, for all of Elon Musk's aircraft. The previous landing at Austin was on October 30 by the same aircraft, which arrived from Brownsville. 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 Los Angeles with seven landings. Two other tracked aircraft landed at Austin in the 24 hours before this flight: a Gulfstream G650ER belonging to Travis Kalanick landed about 18 hours earlier, and a Learjet 45 belonging to Jeff Lebby landed about 2 hours earlier.

His fleet of five Gulfstreams is registered through Falcon Landing LLC. The primary aircraft, N628TS, has a tail number that nods to his June 28 birthday. In 2024, his aircraft made 355 flights totaling about 881 hours, including 31 flights to and from Palm Beach.

This flight ended at the owner's home base after a brief trip to Los Angeles. The aircraft had flown from San Jose to Los Angeles earlier on October 31, a 54 minute flight covering 271 nautical miles. In the 30 day tracking window, the owner's aircraft visited 19 airports in 2 countries and flew about 20,408 nautical miles.

Before the flight to Los Angeles, the aircraft flew from Hollister to San Jose on October 31, a 11 minute trip covering 28 nautical miles. It then flew from San Jose to Los Angeles in 1 hour and 1 minute, covering 269 nautical miles. The day before, on October 30, the same aircraft flew from Austin to San Jose in 3 hours and 5 minutes, covering 1,281 nautical miles.

The aircraft's previous landing was at Los Angeles about one hour before this flight. The Gulfstream G650ER entered service in 2014 and is an ultra long range variant of the G650 with an additional 4,000 pounds of fuel capacity. Its top speed is Mach 0.925, or 516 knots.

Los Angeles International Airport has a longest runway of 12,894 feet and an elevation of 125 feet. Austin Bergstrom International Airport has a longest runway of 12,250 feet and an elevation of 542 feet. In the 30 day tracking window, the owner's aircraft made 6 landings at Austin, with the most common destinations being Los Angeles with 7 landings and San Jose with 5 landings.