George Lucas's Gulfstream G700 N138GL lands at Boston after 58-minute hop from Teterboro

George Lucas's Gulfstream G700, tail number N138GL, landed at Boston Logan International Airport on Wednesday, November 11, 2026. The aircraft departed Teterboro Airport in New Jersey at 18:07 UTC and touched down at 19:06 UTC. The flight took 58 minutes.

The great-circle distance between Teterboro and Boston is 168 nautical miles, or 193 miles. The aircraft flew at an average ground speed of 172 knots and reached a top speed of 458 knots. Its highest altitude was 19,000 feet. The flight burned about 468 gallons of fuel and produced an estimated 4,493 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 11,122 miles. The Gulfstream G700 is an ultra long range jet with a range of 7,750 nautical miles, a top speed of Mach 0.935, and a ceiling of 51,000 feet. It can seat up to 19 passengers.

This was the first tracked landing at Boston in the window from September 3 to November 10, 2026. The aircraft's home base is San Francisco International Airport, 2,344 nautical miles from Boston. Usual destinations on file include Miami-Opa Locka, Chino, Carlsbad, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Aspen. In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited nine airports and flew about 18,565 nautical miles. Other tracked aircraft that landed at Boston in the 24 hours before this landing included a Dassault Falcon 900EX registered to State Farm, a Bombardier Challenger 605 registered to FMC Corp, a Gulfstream G280 registered to Goldman Sachs, and a Gulfstream G550 registered to Kumar Mangalam Birla.

The aircraft used only 2 percent of its range on this flight. Boston Logan's longest runway is 10,083 feet, with an elevation of 20 feet. Teterboro's longest runway is 6,997 feet, with an elevation of 9 feet. The Gulfstream G700 has the largest cabin in the Gulfstream line, with five living areas, and was certified in 2023.

George Lucas created Star Wars and Indiana Jones and sold Lucasfilm to Disney for about $4 billion in 2012. He owns Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, California. His aircraft, N138GL, is a 2025 Gulfstream G700 registered to SWR Services III LLC of Palo Alto and managed by Solairus Aviation. No public events or appearances tied to George Lucas were found near Boston on this date.

The aircraft had been on the ground at Teterboro for about 22 hours before this flight. Its previous tracked flight was from Chicago to Teterboro on November 10, a 1-hour 7-minute trip covering 666 nautical miles. Recent flights by the same owner include a November 9 trip from Oakland to Chicago in 3 hours 32 minutes covering 1,600 nautical miles.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft made 17 tracked flights, spending 42.9 hours in the air. Those flights produced an estimated 197,911 kilograms of CO2. The longest leg in that period was from Oakland to Fort Lauderdale on November 2, covering 2,234 nautical miles. The most common destinations in that window were Oakland with 15 landings, Van Nuys with 11, and Chicago with 4.