Jeff Bezos's Pilatus PC-24 N194PJ flies Oxford to Lafayette in 51 minutes

Jeff Bezos's Pilatus PC-24, tail N194PJ, departed University Oxford Airport (KUOX) in Mississippi at 20:11 UTC on Friday, October 30, 2026, and landed at Lafayette Regional Airport (KLFT) in Louisiana at 21:02 UTC. The flight took 51 minutes.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 282 nautical miles (325 miles). The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 330 knots and reached a top speed of 412 knots at a highest altitude of 32,000 feet. The Pilatus PC-24 has a range of 2,000 nautical miles and a top speed of Mach 0.74. It can seat up to 8 passengers and has a ceiling of 45,000 feet. The flight burned an estimated 111 gallons of fuel, producing about 1.1 metric tons of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 2,641 miles.

The Pilatus PC-24 used 14 percent of its range on this flight. The departure airport, University Oxford Airport, has a longest runway of 5,600 feet at an elevation of 452 feet. Lafayette Regional Airport's longest runway is 8,000 feet at an elevation of 42 feet. The aircraft's home base, Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport, is 671 nautical miles from Lafayette.

In the 30 days before this flight, all four aircraft in Jeff Bezos's fleet made 40 tracked flights, from August 23 to October 30, 2026. Lafayette was the most common destination in that window, with 10 landings. The last landing at Lafayette before this flight was on October 29, 2026, by the same Pilatus PC-24. About three hours before this landing, a Gulfstream G600 operated by American Express also landed at Lafayette.

Jeff Bezos is the executive chairman of Amazon and founder of Blue Origin. The flight's arrival at Lafayette places the aircraft in southwest Louisiana, a region not directly tied to Blue Origin's operations at Corn Ranch in Van Horn, Texas, or the company's East Coast spaceport in Florida. The Pilatus PC-24, with its short-field and unimproved runway capability, is the aircraft in the fleet best suited for trips to smaller airfields.

The aircraft had been on the ground for about one hour before this flight, following a previous tracked landing at Batesville earlier on October 30. In the 30 days before this flight, all four aircraft in Jeff Bezos's fleet made 19 flights, totaling 43.6 hours in the air and covering about 18,784 nautical miles.

In the 30 days before this flight, the longest leg among all four aircraft in Jeff Bezos's fleet was a 4,160-nautical-mile flight from Kailua-Kona to Miami on October 11, 2026, flown by the Gulfstream G700. The Pilatus PC-24 had made a 47-minute flight from Lafayette to Batesville earlier on October 30, covering 271 nautical miles.

The Pilatus PC-24 continues to work the regional corridor between Mississippi and Louisiana, a pattern that has been a recurring theme for this aircraft since it joined the fleet.