Elon Musk's Gulfstream G550 N272BG flies from Conroe to Port Isabel in 37 minutes

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G550, tail N272BG, flew from Conroe-North Houston Regional Airport in Texas to Port Isabel Cameron County Airport on Tuesday, November 3, 2026. The aircraft departed at 23:34 UTC and landed at 00:10 UTC, spending 37 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 274 nautical miles, or about 315 miles.

The departure airport, Conroe-North Houston Regional Airport, has a longest runway of 7,501 feet at an elevation of 245 feet. The arrival airport, Port Isabel Cameron County Airport, has a longest runway of 8,001 feet at an elevation of 19 feet. The distance from the owner's home base at Austin Bergstrom International Airport to Port Isabel is 243 nautical miles.

The flight averaged a ground speed of 449 knots and reached a top speed of 527 knots at a maximum altitude of 30,000 feet. The aircraft burned an estimated 250 US gallons of fuel, producing about 2.4 metric tons of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 5,939 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 4 percent of the aircraft's range.

This was the third landing at Port Isabel in the tracking window from October 22 to November 3, 2026, for all of Elon Musk's aircraft. The previous landing at Port Isabel was on October 28 by the Gulfstream G450 N450GG. 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's previous tracked landing was at Houston about one hour before this flight.

The most common destinations were Los Angeles with seven landings, Austin with six landings, and San Jose with five landings. The longest leg in that window was a flight from Perryville to Los Angeles on October 31, covering 1,410 nautical miles, flown by the same Gulfstream G550.

The aircraft's previous flights on November 3 included a 12-minute hop from New Iberia to Baton Rouge and a 55-minute leg from Matamoros to New Iberia. The Gulfstream G550 is a GV-SP type with over 617 in operation worldwide. This flight ended at an airport that serves as a gateway to the Starbase facility, continuing a pattern of short regional hops in the owner's fleet.

Earlier on November 3, the same owner's Gulfstream G450 flew from Temple to Mountain View, covering 1,275 nautical miles in 3 hours 35 minutes. On November 2, the Gulfstream G800 flew from Austin to Mesa, a 737-nautical-mile trip in 2 hours. The Gulfstream G650ER made a 16-minute hop from Austin to Austin, covering 47 nautical miles.