James Dolan's Gulfstream G550 N5465M flies from East Farmingdale to Teterboro in 39 minutes

James Dolan's Gulfstream G550, tail number N5465M, landed at Teterboro Airport on Sunday, November 1, 2026, at 17:46 UTC. The aircraft departed Republic Airport in East Farmingdale at 17:07 UTC and spent 39 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 29 nautical miles, or 33 miles.

The Gulfstream G550 is a GV-SP type, with more than 617 in operation worldwide. Its top speed is Mach 0.885, or 488 knots. The aircraft burns an estimated 430 US gallons of fuel per hour. Republic Airport's longest runway is 6,833 feet, at an elevation of 82 feet. Teterboro's longest runway is 6,997 feet, with an elevation of 9 feet.

The flight covered less than 1 percent of the aircraft's maximum range of 6,750 nautical miles. The Gulfstream G550 reached a top ground speed of 285 knots and a highest altitude of 5,450 feet. Our estimate puts the fuel burned at about 281 US gallons, producing about 2.7 metric tons of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 6,677 miles. The G550 can seat up to 19 passengers and has a service ceiling of 51,000 feet.

In the 30 days before this flight, all three of James Dolan's tracked aircraft made 40 landings at Teterboro only twice. The last Teterboro landing before this one was on October 11, 22 days earlier, by the Gulfstream G650ER N176KH. The fleet's most common destination in that window was East Farmingdale with 15 landings, followed by Newark with 8 landings. N5465M had been on the ground at East Farmingdale for about six days before this flight, since its arrival from Las Vegas on October 26.

On October 31, another of Dolan's Gulfstream G550s, tail number N107VS, flew from Saranac Lake to East Farmingdale in 29 minutes, covering 185 nautical miles. That same day, N107VS flew from East Farmingdale to East Farmingdale in 35 minutes, covering 183 nautical miles. On October 26, the Gulfstream G650ER N176KH flew from East Farmingdale to Westfield in 30 minutes, covering 91 nautical miles.

James Dolan is the executive chairman of Madison Square Garden and the owner of the New York Knicks. Teterboro Airport is a general aviation hub near New York City, where Dolan's business interests are based. No public appearance or event tied to Dolan was found for the arrival date. The Knicks' season was underway in November, with games scheduled at Madison Square Garden in the days around this flight.

In the 30 days before this flight, the longest leg flown by any of James Dolan's tracked aircraft was from East Farmingdale to Palma de Mallorca on October 23, covering 3,382 nautical miles. That flight was made by the Gulfstream G650ER, tail number N176KH. On October 26, that same aircraft flew from Palma de Mallorca back to East Farmingdale, a trip of 3,379 nautical miles lasting 7 hours and 22 minutes.

The fleet logged 40 flights in the 30 days before this trip, covering about 34,634 nm and producing an estimated 345,476 kg of CO2.