Elon Musk's Gulfstream G550 N272BG flies from Los Angeles to San Francisco

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G550, tail number N272BG, flew from Los Angeles International Airport to San Francisco International Airport on Friday, November 6, 2026. The aircraft departed Los Angeles at 14:53 UTC and landed at San Francisco at 15:46 UTC. The flight took 53 minutes in the air.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 287 nautical miles, or 330 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 325 knots and reached a highest altitude of 30,000 feet. The flight used about 362 US gallons of fuel, producing an estimated 3,478 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 8,609 miles. The Gulfstream G550 is an ultra long range jet with a range of 6,750 nautical miles, seating for up to 19 passengers, and a ceiling of 51,000 feet.

The aircraft used only 4 percent of its range on this trip. Its top ground speed reached 487 knots. The departure runway at Los Angeles International Airport is 12,894 feet long. The arrival runway at San Francisco International Airport is 11,870 feet long. The Gulfstream G550 is a GV-SP type with over 617 in operation worldwide. It burns about 410 US gallons of fuel per hour.

This was the first landing at San Francisco by any of Elon Musk's five aircraft in the tracked window from October 28 to November 5, 2026. His home base is Austin Bergstrom International Airport, 1,305 nautical miles from San Francisco. In the 30 days before this flight, his aircraft made 35 flights, visiting 17 airports in two countries. Other tracked aircraft that landed at San Francisco in the 24 hours before this flight included a Gulfstream G650ER belonging to Travis Kalanick, a Gulfstream G600 belonging to Netflix, and a Gulfstream G550 belonging to Halliburton.

The report cited video of one of his private jets landing at Lafayette Regional Airport.

If Elon Musk was aboard, this short hop between two major California airports could be related to business at Tesla, SpaceX, or xAI. The flight is a routine movement for an executive whose fleet of five Gulfstreams regularly shuttles between California, Texas, and other destinations.

Before this flight, the aircraft had been on the ground for about 15 hours. Its previous tracked landing was at Los Angeles on November 5, 2026. In the 30 days before this flight, the owner's five aircraft made 10 landings at Los Angeles, 5 at Austin, and 5 at San Jose. The longest leg in that window was a 1,410 nautical mile flight from Perryville to Los Angeles on October 31, 2026.

This flight adds to the 35 tracked movements by Elon Musk's aircraft in the previous 30 days, which totaled 54.5 hours in the air and an estimated 224,457 kilograms of CO2.