GLOCK's Global Express lands in Miami the week of the NSSA Congressional Fly-In

GLOCK's Bombardier Global Express XRS, tail number OE-IGG, was tracked flying from Shannon Airport in Ireland to Miami Executive Airport on August 10, 2026, completing the 4,000-mile crossing in just over eight hours. The aircraft is registered to Glock Aviation GmbH, a company controlled by the estate of the late Gaston Glock and now overseen by his second wife, Kathrin Glock. As always, celebplanes tracks the plane, not the people — but if the Glock family or executives were aboard, their arrival in South Florida would come at a moment of intense federal engagement for the firearms industry.

If they were on that flight, the travelers would land the same week the National Shooting Sports Foundation holds its annual Congressional Fly-In, an event that drew “dozens of firearm and ammunition industry leaders … from across the country” to Washington for “over 60 meetings with Members of Congress, senators and staff from both political [parties],” per the NSSF's own coverage published this week. The fly-in takes place just days before the August recess, making it a critical period for defending the industry's regulatory priorities ahead of the fall campaign season. A Miami arrival offers quick connecting flights to D.C. or, just as plausibly, allows executives to stage from the company's U.S. headquarters in Smyrna, Georgia before heading north.