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James Dolan's Gulfstream G650ER touches down in Nantucket amid a sweltering Northeast summer
If aboard, James Dolan would arrive on the island the same week the UK breaks records for heat-related days — though the real reason likely lies closer to home.
By celebplanes · 2 min read · James Dolan
James Dolan
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Departure
KMMU — Morristown
Arrival
KACK — Nantucket Memorial
Airborne
32m
Distance
194 nm
CO₂
2.2t
James Dolan's Gulfstream G650ER, registered as N176KH, was tracked departing Morristown Municipal Airport at 8:49 PM local time on July 9 and landing at Nantucket Memorial Airport 32 minutes later, after a brief hop at 21,000 feet. The flight, operated by the owner of Madison Square Garden and the New York Knicks, landed just as an extreme heatwave gripped the broader region — with BBC News reporting that the UK had broken its annual record for the most 34°C days, while amber health alerts stretched across England. Though the aircraft's path was a short shuttle from New Jersey to the Massachusetts island, the context of the week's global weather extremes provides an atmospheric backdrop.
If James Dolan was aboard, the timing would land him on Nantucket during what the Met Office has described as one of the UK's longest heatwaves since 1976 — a phenomenon that, while geographically distant, underscores a summer of unusual warmth in the Northern Hemisphere. Yet the more immediate explanation for the flight likely lies in the destination itself: Nantucket is a habitual summer retreat for the billionaire executive, who has been tracked shuttling between Northeast airports in recent days. The aircraft's prior movements on July 9 included a leg to Las Vegas — perhaps a positioning flight — before returning to the New York area and then heading to the coast.
Aboard the Gulfstream G650ER
The aircraft
Type
Gulfstream G650ER
Tail
N176KH
Max alt
21,000 ft
Max speed
474 kt
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