Elon Musk's Gulfstream G550 N272BG lands at Moffett Field after 46-minute flight from Los Angeles

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G550, tail N272BG, flew from Los Angeles International Airport to Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View on Thursday, November 5, 2026. The aircraft departed at 05:52 UTC and landed at 06:38 UTC, spending 46 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 275 nautical miles, or about 317 miles.

The flight averaged a ground speed of 356 knots and reached a top speed of 494 knots at a maximum altitude of 30,000 feet. The aircraft burned an estimated 317 US gallons of fuel, producing about 3.0 metric tons of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 7,539 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 fourth landing at Mountain View in the tracking window from October 26 to November 5, 2026, for all of Elon Musk's aircraft. The previous landing at Mountain View was on November 4 by the same aircraft, N272BG. 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 eight landings. Another tracked aircraft, a Gulfstream G450 N450GG, landed at Mountain View on November 3 after a flight from Temple.

The aircraft's arrival follows a pattern of shuttling between Southern California and the Bay Area. On November 4, the same aircraft flew from Los Angeles to Mountain View, and on November 5 it flew from Mountain View back to Los Angeles after this flight.

This flight ended a brief trip to Los Angeles that began with an earlier arrival from Mountain View on November 4. The aircraft had flown from Brownsville to Los Angeles on November 4, a 3-hour 5-minute flight covering 1,208 nautical miles. In the 30-day tracking window, the owner's aircraft visited 18 airports in 2 countries and flew about 21,551 nautical miles.

The aircraft spent about one hour on the ground in Los Angeles before this departure. The longest leg flown by any of the owner's aircraft in the 30-day window was a 1,410-nautical-mile trip from Perryville to Los Angeles on October 31, also in this Gulfstream G550.

Los Angeles International Airport has a longest runway of 12,894 feet at an elevation of 125 feet. Moffett Federal Airfield's longest runway is 9,197 feet at 32 feet elevation. The distance from the owner's home base at Austin Bergstrom International Airport to Mountain View is 1,287 nautical miles.