Elon Musk's Gulfstream G550 N272BG lands in Conroe after 68-minute flight from Baton Rouge

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G550, tail N272BG, flew from Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport in Louisiana to Conroe-North Houston Regional Airport in Texas on Tuesday, November 3, 2026. The aircraft departed at 21:06 UTC and landed at 22:14 UTC, spending 1 hour and 8 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 224 nautical miles, or about 258 miles.

The flight averaged a ground speed of 198 knots and reached a top speed of 404 knots at a maximum altitude of 24,025 feet. The aircraft burned an estimated 465 US gallons of fuel, producing about 4.5 metric tons of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 11,065 miles. The Gulfstream G550 is an ultra long range business jet with a range of 6,750 nautical miles, a ceiling of 51,000 feet, and seating for up to 19 passengers. The flight used only 3 percent of the aircraft's range.

This was the first landing at Houston in the tracking window from October 22 to November 3, 2026, for all of Elon Musk's aircraft. 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 35 flights, with the most common destination being Los Angeles with seven landings. The aircraft had previously landed at Baton Rouge about 5 hours earlier, after a 55-minute flight from Matamoros, Mexico.

Conroe-North Houston Regional Airport is about 117 nautical miles from his home base in Austin. A web search did not find any scheduled public appearance or company event tied to Elon Musk near Conroe on this date.

The arrival airport in Conroe has a longest runway of 7,501 feet at an elevation of 245 feet. The departure airport in Baton Rouge has a longest runway of 7,500 feet at an elevation of 70 feet. This flight ended a short hop from Louisiana to Texas, following a day that included earlier movements from Matamoros to New Iberia and from New Iberia to Baton Rouge.

The Gulfstream G550 is a GV-SP type, with over 617 in operation worldwide. Its top speed is Mach 0.885, or 488 knots. The estimated fuel burn is 410 US gallons per hour.

On the same day, another of the owner's aircraft, a Gulfstream G450 with tail N450GG, flew from Temple to Mountain View, a 3-hour-35-minute trip covering 1,275 nautical miles. A Gulfstream G800 with tail N8628 flew from Austin to Mesa on November 2, a 2-hour flight of 737 nautical miles.

The longest leg in that period was a 1,410-nautical-mile flight from Perryville to Los Angeles on October 31, flown by the same Gulfstream G550, N272BG.