Evan Spiegel's Boeing 737 MAX 8 BBJ lands at Los Angeles after 10-hour flight from Alta

Evan Spiegel's Boeing 737 MAX 8 BBJ, tail number N3E, landed at Los Angeles International Airport (KLAX) on Friday, November 13, 2026, at 02:03 UTC. The flight departed Alta Airport (ENAT) in Norway at 15:14 UTC and spent 10 hours and 49 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 4,350 nautical miles, or 5,006 miles.

The aircraft reached a top ground speed of 530 knots and a highest altitude of 39,050 feet. Its average ground speed for the trip was 402 knots. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 8,652 US gallons of fuel and produced about 83.1 metric tons of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 205,734 miles. The Boeing 737 MAX 8 BBJ is an airliner-class jet with a long range, typically seating up to 30 passengers and cruising at altitudes above 40,000 feet.

This was the fourth tracked landing by N3E at Los Angeles International Airport since July 25, 2026. The previous landing at KLAX was on September 18, 56 days before this flight. Spiegel's home base is Santa Monica Municipal Airport (KSMO), about 5 nautical miles from KLAX. In the 30 days before this flight, N3E visited 10 airports in four countries and flew about 11,652 nautical miles. Another tracked aircraft, Lachlan Murdoch's Gulfstream G800, landed at Los Angeles about three hours earlier.

Evan Spiegel is an American billionaire and co-founder of Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat. He has a net worth of $2.5 billion as of 2025 and became the world's youngest billionaire in 2015 at age 25. Spiegel studied product design at Stanford University, where he developed Snapchat as a class project before dropping out. He is married to Australian model Miranda Kerr. His primary aviation base is Santa Monica Airport, near both his Brentwood residence and Snap's Santa Monica headquarters.

The flight from Alta follows a series of European trips by N3E in the days before. On November 12, the aircraft flew from Oslo to Alta in 1 hour and 40 minutes. Earlier legs included a flight from Stockholm to Oslo on November 11 and from Luton to Stockholm on November 10. The aircraft had been on the ground at Alta for about 18 hours before departing for Los Angeles.

In the 30 days before this flight, N3E flew 12 flights totaling 29.3 hours in the air. Our estimate shows those flights produced about 225,007 kg of CO2. The longest leg in that window was from Newark to Cardiff on November 9, covering 2,902 nautical miles.

The aircraft's most common destination in that 30-day window was Van Nuys Airport, with 10 landings. Newark Liberty International Airport saw three landings, and Los Angeles International Airport also had three landings. Other recent flights included a 39-minute trip from Stockholm to Oslo on November 11 and a 26-minute hop from Cardiff to Luton on November 10.

Spiegel also owns a 52-meter yacht named Bliss, built in 2014. According to AIS tracking via our partner site celebyachts.com, the vessel was last seen in the Dubai area seven days ago. That location is 7,238 nautical miles from Los Angeles International Airport and 2,909 nautical miles from Alta Airport.

The aircraft landed at Los Angeles International Airport, which has a longest runway of 12,894 feet and an elevation of 125 feet. Alta Airport's longest runway is 7,165 feet at an elevation of 9 feet.