Japanese Government 777-300ER tail 80-1112 flies Sapporo to Sapporo in 3 hours 23 minutes

Japanese Government / Imperial Flight's Boeing 777-300ER, tail 80-1112, flew from New Chitose Airport in Sapporo, Japan, to the same airport on Tuesday, November 3, 2026. The aircraft departed at 23:44 UTC and landed at 03:07 UTC, spending 3 hours 23 minutes in the air. The flight covered a great-circle distance of 0 nautical miles, as it departed and arrived at the same airport.

The aircraft reached a top ground speed of 585 knots and a highest altitude of 35,025 feet. Celebplanes estimates the jet burned about 3,385 US gallons of fuel, producing roughly 32,520 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 80,496 miles. The 777-300ER is a long-range wide-body jet built to carry about 150 passengers and fly intercontinental routes.

Before this flight, Japanese Government / Imperial Flight's aircraft had landed at Sapporo 34 times in the tracked window from September 13 to November 1, 2026. The last landing at Sapporo before this flight was on November 1, 2026, by the other aircraft on file, tail 80-1111. The home base for the fleet is Tokyo Haneda International Airport, which is 443 nautical miles from New Chitose. In the 30 days before this flight, the owner's two aircraft visited 7 airports in one country and flew about 2,569 nautical miles. The longest leg in that period was a 592 nautical mile flight from Sapporo to Osaka on October 21, 2026, flown by the same aircraft, tail 80-1112.

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 had been on the ground at Sapporo for about 6 days before this flight, following a previous tracked landing on October 29, 2026. In the tracked window from September 13 to November 1, 2026, the owner's two aircraft made 40 flights, with Sapporo as the most common destination at 34 landings and Tokyo second at 3 landings. New Chitose Airport's longest runway is 9,843 feet at an elevation of 82 feet.

The aircraft's estimated fuel burn rate is 1,000 US gallons per hour. On October 29, 2026, tail 80-1112 flew from Tokyo Haneda International Airport to New Chitose Airport, covering 239 nautical miles in 2 hours 24 minutes. That same day, it also flew from Mutsu to Sapporo, a 95 nautical mile leg lasting 1 hour 55 minutes.

On October 28, 2026, the same aircraft flew from Sapporo to Sapporo, a 4 hour 31 minute flight covering 130 nautical miles. On October 27, 2026, it flew from Sapporo to Sapporo for 2 hours 48 minutes, and earlier that day from Tokyo Haneda to Sapporo, a 269 nautical mile trip in 2 hours 8 minutes. On October 26, 2026, it flew a 36 minute, 10 nautical mile hop from Sapporo to Sapporo.