Japanese Government / Imperial Flight’s Boeing 777-300ER flies from Mutsu to Sapporo

The flight covered a great-circle distance of 95 nautical miles, or 109 miles, at an average ground speed of 50 knots. The jet reached a top speed of 468 knots and a highest altitude of 29,000 feet.

The 777-300ER is a long-range wide-body jet built to carry about 150 passengers and fly intercontinental routes. For this 95 nm domestic leg, celebplanes estimates the aircraft burned about 1,916 US gallons of fuel, producing roughly 18,410 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 45,568 miles. The aircraft is one of two 777-300ERs operated by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force for the Prime Minister and the Imperial Family, with the other being tail 80-1111.

The flight departed from JMSDF Ōminato Base in Mutsu, Japan, at 00:49 UTC and landed at New Chitose Airport in Sapporo at 02:44 UTC, with a time in the air of 1 hour and 55 minutes. The departure field has an elevation of 24 feet, while the arrival field's longest runway is 9,843 feet and its elevation is 82 feet. The aircraft's estimated fuel burn is 1,000 US gallons per hour.

Before this flight, Japanese Government / Imperial Flight's aircraft had landed at Sapporo 31 times in the tracked window from September 8 to October 28, 2026, with the most recent landing on October 28, 2026, one day before this flight. The home base for the fleet is Tokyo Haneda International Airport, which is 443 nm from New Chitose. In the 30 days before this flight, the owner's two aircraft visited 8 airports in one country and flew about 3,103 nm. The longest leg in that period was a 592 nm flight from Sapporo to Osaka on October 21, 2026, flown by the same aircraft, tail 80-1112.

In the tracked window from September 8 to October 28, 2026, the owner's two aircraft made 40 flights. Sapporo was the most common destination with 31 landings, followed by Tokyo with 4 landings. Before this flight, the aircraft had been on the ground for about 18 hours, following a previous tracked landing at Sapporo on October 28, 2026. Recent flights by the same owner include a Sapporo-to-Sapporo leg on October 28 lasting 4 hours and 31 minutes, and a Tokyo-to-Sapporo flight on October 27 covering 269 nm in 2 hours and 8 minutes.

Japan's Air Self-Defense Force operates the two 777-300ERs as primary transport for the Prime Minister and the Imperial Family, always deploying them together for heads-of-state missions. The aircraft are based at Chitose Air Base in Hokkaido and frequently stage through Tokyo Haneda. Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako use the same aircraft for state visits. Japan is a top-20 economy and G7 member, so the aircraft appear at virtually every major multilateral summit. No scheduled public appearance or event for Japanese Government / Imperial Flight near Sapporo was found in the available web sources.

The aircraft's presence at Sapporo places it within range of its home base and other common destinations in the region.