Jared Isaacman's Bombardier Global Express XRS N82EM flies from Joint Base Andrews to Van Nuys in 5 hours 21 minutes

Jared Isaacman's Bombardier Global Express XRS, tail number N82EM, flew from Joint Base Andrews (KADW) in Camp Springs, Maryland to Van Nuys Airport (KVNY) in California on Wednesday, October 28, 2026. The flight departed at 20:17 UTC and landed at 01:38 UTC, spending 5 hours and 21 minutes in the air. Joint Base Andrews has a longest runway of 11,301 feet at an elevation of 280 feet. Van Nuys Airport has a longest runway of 8,001 feet at an elevation of 802 feet.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 2,007 nautical miles, or 2,310 miles. The aircraft averaged 375 knots ground speed and reached a top speed of 440 knots. Its highest altitude during the flight was 43,050 feet. The flight burned an estimated 2,301 US gallons of fuel, producing about 22,103 kilograms of CO2, roughly equal to driving a car 54,710 miles. N82EM is an Ultra Long Range jet with a range of 6,160 nautical miles, a ceiling of 51,000 feet, and seating for up to 16 passengers.

This was the first tracked landing at Van Nuys in the 18-flight window from October 18 to October 27. The aircraft's home base is Lehigh Valley International Airport in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Usual destinations on file include Washington Dulles International Airport and the Space Florida Launch and Landing Facility in Titusville. The 18 flights before this one included trips to Washington, Allentown, Bozeman, Tuscaloosa, Meridian, Naples, and Titusville. Another tracked aircraft, an IBM Gulfstream G650ER, landed at Van Nuys about 7 hours before this flight.

Jared Isaacman founded Shift4, the Allentown, Pennsylvania payments company, after dropping out of high school. He also started Draken International, which flies former military jets to train fighter pilots. He paid for and commanded two private SpaceX missions, Inspiration4 in 2021 and Polaris Dawn in 2024, where he made the first commercial spacewalk. He was confirmed as NASA administrator in late 2025. The FAA lists JDI Holdings LLC of Allentown as the owner of N82EM. Van Nuys Airport is near Los Angeles, where Isaacman's company Shift4 has a significant presence, but no specific public event or meeting tied to this flight was found in web searches.

This flight used 33 percent of the aircraft's range. The Bombardier Global Express XRS entered service in 2006 and is known for improved range and performance over the original Global Express. N82EM is a 2007 model with serial number 9239 and hex code AB2EF2.

The aircraft's top speed is Mach 0.89, or 488 knots. Its estimated fuel burn is 430 US gallons per hour. The distance from its home base, Lehigh Valley International Airport in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to Van Nuys Airport is 2,067 nautical miles.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited 10 airports in one country and flew about 10,160 nautical miles. The longest leg in that period was from Bozeman to Washington on October 26, covering 1,565 nautical miles. The aircraft spent about 21 hours on the ground before this flight, after its previous tracked landing at Washington on October 27.

Recent flights by the same owner include a trip from Pittsburgh to Washington on October 27 lasting 56 minutes over 180 nautical miles, and a flight from Allentown to Pittsburgh earlier that day lasting 34 minutes over 212 nautical miles. Another flight on October 27 went from Washington to Allentown in 58 minutes over 309 nautical miles.