Honeywell Gulfstream G600 N161B flies from Barcelona to Charlotte in 8 hours 46 minutes

Honeywell International's Gulfstream G600, tail number N161B, landed at Charlotte Douglas International Airport on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, at 02:35 UTC. The flight departed from Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport in Spain at 17:48 UTC the previous day. The trip took 8 hours and 46 minutes.

The great-circle distance between the two airports was 3,778 nautical miles, or 4,348 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 431 knots and reached a top speed of 510 knots. Its highest altitude was 47,000 feet. The Gulfstream G600 is an ultra long range jet with a range of 6,600 nautical miles, so this flight used about 57 percent of that capacity. The plane typically seats 10 passengers and can carry up to 19. Our estimates show the flight burned about 3,858 gallons of fuel and produced about 37.1 metric tons of carbon dioxide, roughly equal to driving a car 91,741 miles.

This was the 10th landing by a Honeywell aircraft at Charlotte in the tracking window that started October 7, 2026. The previous Honeywell landing at Charlotte was on October 23, 11 days earlier, also by N161B. Charlotte is Honeywell's home base. The company's usual destinations include Washington Dulles, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, London and Austin. In the 24 hours before this landing, a Dassault Falcon 900 operated by Corning also landed at Charlotte, about 13 hours earlier.

Honeywell International is an aerospace and industrial automation conglomerate based in Charlotte, North Carolina, since 2024. Its aerospace division operates out of Phoenix. Honeywell flies a fleet of four aircraft: the Gulfstream G600 N161B and its sister ship N151B, a Dassault Falcon 8X, a Boeing 757 engine testbed, and an ERJ-170. As an avionics manufacturer, Honeywell uses its own jets for flight testing and for travel to its facilities and customer sites.

The flight from Barcelona to Charlotte followed a series of trips by N161B through the Middle East and India. In the previous week, the same aircraft flew from Doha to Barcelona, Abu Dhabi to Doha, New Delhi to Abu Dhabi, and Pune to New Delhi. Over the 30 days before this flight, all of Honeywell's aircraft completed 40 flights, spending 82.2 hours in the air and producing an estimated 310,759 kilograms of carbon dioxide.

The Gulfstream G600 has a top speed of Mach 0.925, or 515 knots, and a ceiling of 51,000 feet. It is a stretched version of the G500 with four passenger zones. The aircraft burns about 440 US gallons of fuel per hour, according to estimates.

Barcelona's Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport has a longest runway of 11,000 feet at an elevation of 12 feet. Charlotte Douglas International Airport's longest runway is 10,000 feet at 748 feet elevation.

In the 30 days before this flight, the longest leg by any Honeywell aircraft was N161B's trip from Barcelona to Bengaluru on October 27, covering 4,242 nautical miles. The most common destinations for all Honeywell aircraft in that window were Charlotte with nine landings, Phoenix with six, and Atlanta with four.

The aircraft is now at its home base. Our tracking shows no further flights for N161B at the time of publication.