Howard Lutnick's Embraer Lineage 1000E lands at Reagan National from Albany

Howard Lutnick's Embraer Lineage 1000E, tail N527AH, flew from Albany International Airport (KALB) to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (KDCA) on Wednesday, October 21, 2026. The aircraft departed Albany at 18:18 UTC and landed at Washington at 19:32 UTC, spending 1 hour and 14 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 277 nautical miles, or 319 miles.

The flight averaged a ground speed of 225 knots and reached a top speed of 420 knots at a highest altitude of 22,025 feet. Celebplanes estimates the aircraft burned about 432 US gallons of fuel, producing about 4,149 kilograms of CO2. The Embraer Lineage 1000E is a widebody VIP jet derived from the E-190 regional airliner, with a range of approximately 4,600 nautical miles and seating for up to 19 passengers in fully flat-bed configurations.

This was Lutnick's 11th landing at Washington in the tracked period from September 9 to October 21, 2026. The previous landing at Washington occurred on October 20, one day before this flight. Lutnick's home base is Teterboro Airport (KTEB), and his most common destinations in that window were Washington (10 landings), Newburgh (7 landings), and Teterboro (5 landings). Another tracked aircraft, a Bombardier Global Express XRS belonging to Jared Isaacman, landed at Washington about 20 hours before this flight.

Howard Lutnick served as Chairman, President, and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald from 1991 until his confirmation as Secretary of Commerce on February 21, 2025. He also chaired BGC Partners and Newmark Group. He lost 658 of his 960 New York office employees in the September 11 attacks while he was away taking his son to his first day of kindergarten. Lutnick travels on a 2016 Embraer Lineage 1000E registered to Lineage Asset Company LLC, a Delaware holding entity.

If Howard Lutnick was aboard, the flight from Albany to Washington would have brought him back to the capital after a trip to upstate New York. Albany is the state capital and a hub for government and business activity. The aircraft had spent about three hours on the ground in Albany before departing, following a previous tracked landing there earlier on October 21.

Albany's longest runway is 8,500 feet at an elevation of 285 feet. Washington's longest runway is 7,169 feet at 15 feet elevation. The aircraft's home base at Teterboro is 182 nautical miles from Washington.

The aircraft's 30-day flight history shows 30 flights totaling 62.8 hours in the air, with about 211,110 kilograms of CO2 emitted. The longest leg in that period was from Dulles to Orio al Serio, Italy, on October 16, covering 3,698 nautical miles.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited 13 airports in 3 countries and flew about 22,805 nautical miles. The tracked period from September 9 to October 21 included 40 flights. The aircraft burns an estimated 350 US gallons of fuel per hour.