James Dolan's Gulfstream touches down in the Adirondacks as a 75-year sports curse falls elsewhere

James Dolan’s Gulfstream G550, tail number N107VS, was tracked departing Republic Airport on Long Island at 19:37 UTC on July 26, 2026, and landing 32 minutes later at the Sagamore Seaplane Base & Marina on Long Lake in New York’s Adirondack Park. The aircraft climbed to 17,075 feet and reached a ground speed of 415 knots on the short northeast hop — a routine transit for a machine that logs frequent trips to mountain and coastal retreats.

If James Dolan was aboard, he would have arrived at his lakeside destination the same day a different sort of drought ended 3,000 miles away. Per a Sky Sports report, Mayo won its first All-Ireland Senior Football title in 75 years, defeating defending champions Kerry at Croke Park and lifting a curse that had hung over the county since 1951. For a sports executive who presides over the New York Knicks — a franchise that has not won an NBA championship since 1973 — the imagery of a long-awaited breakthrough may have resonated, even if the victory belonged to Gaelic football, not basketball.

The flight fits a well-documented pattern of James Dolan’s aircraft usage during the summer months. Recent tracking data shows the G550 moving between Long Island, Martha’s Vineyard, Bozeman, Montana, and the Adirondacks within the past week alone, suggesting multiple properties or business interests in those regions. The July 23 round-trip to Bozeman, near the Yellowstone Club, is a known billionaire retreat; the July 25 hops to the Vineyard align with seasonal leisure travel. The 26-minute flight from Republic to Long Lake is the shortest leg in this circuit — more of a shuttle than a journey, consistent with a quick weekend change of scenery.

James Dolan, chairman of Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. and executive chairman of MSG Entertainment, operates a fleet of three Gulfstreams. N107VS, a G550, is the middle-aged workhorse of the group, and its movements offer a quiet chronicle of where his attention falls. The Adirondacks landing on a Sunday evening in late July suggests a week or weekend anchored away from the city, a familiar rhythm for a figure whose business calendar in summer often pivots to non-arena pursuits — concerts at the Garden’s upstate venues, board retreats, or simply time at a private camp.

The day’s other headlines — Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, the Fields Medal awarded to two Chinese mathematicians for the first time, a fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire — underscore a world in motion. But for James Dolan, if he was indeed on the flight, the 32-minute buzz up to Long Lake was likely a small, personal punctuation in a busy July: the private aircraft doing what it does best, delivering its owner from one corner of an empire to another, while elsewhere, a county in Ireland finally broke a curse.