Elon Musk's Gulfstream G550 N272BG lands in San Jose from Los Angeles in 42 minutes

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G550, tail N272BG, flew from Los Angeles International Airport to Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport on Thursday, November 12, 2026. The aircraft departed at 03:51 UTC and landed at 04:33 UTC, spending 42 minutes in the air.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 269 nautical miles, or about 309 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 384 knots and reached a top speed of 520 knots at a maximum altitude of 30,025 feet. The flight burned an estimated 287 US gallons of fuel, producing about 2.8 metric tons of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 6,827 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 4 percent of the aircraft's range.

This was the seventh landing at San Jose in the tracking window from October 29 to November 11, 2026, for all of Elon Musk's aircraft. The previous landing at San Jose was on November 6 by the Gulfstream G650ER N628TS, which arrived from Austin. Austin is the home base on file for Elon Musk, and his usual destinations include Brownsville, Los Angeles, West Palm Beach, Washington Dulles, and Lubbock. In the 30-day window, the owner's five Gulfstreams made 37 flights, with the most common destination being Los Angeles with 9 landings.

Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, founder of xAI, and executive chairman of X. San Jose is near SpaceX's headquarters in Hawthorne, California, and X's engineering and operations hub. According to a recent article in the Austin American-Statesman, San Jose has become a recurring destination for Musk's aircraft, hosting X's operations. The flight arrives after a week of activity that included trips between Mesa, Austin, Van Nuys, and San Francisco by other aircraft in the fleet.

This flight ended at an airport that has seen six other landings by Musk's aircraft in the past two weeks. The aircraft had been on the ground at Los Angeles for about five days before this trip.

The aircraft's previous tracked landing was at Los Angeles International Airport on November 6, 2026, meaning it sat on the ground for about five days before this trip. The longest leg flown by any of the owner's aircraft in the past 30 days was a 1,410-nautical-mile flight from Perryville to Los Angeles on October 31, 2026, also made by this same Gulfstream G550.

San Jose's longest runway is 11,000 feet at an elevation of 62 feet. The home base on file, Austin Bergstrom International Airport, is 1,281 nautical miles from San Jose. The G550 is a GV-SP type with over 617 in operation worldwide, and it burns an estimated 410 US gallons of fuel per hour.

On November 11, 2026, another aircraft in the fleet, the Gulfstream G800 N8628, flew from Mesa to Austin, covering 745 nautical miles in 1 hour 50 minutes. Earlier that same day, the G800 also made a 2-hour 7-minute flight from Mesa to Mesa. On November 7, the Gulfstream G650ER N628TS flew from Van Nuys to Austin, a distance of 1,077 nautical miles.