Jeff Bezos's Pilatus PC-24 N194PJ returns to Batesville with a 52-minute hop from Lafayette

Jeff Bezos's Pilatus PC-24, tail N194PJ, departed Lafayette Regional Airport (KLFT) at 15:34 UTC on Sunday, November 1, 2026, and landed at Panola County Airport (KPMU) in Batesville, Mississippi, at 16:26 UTC. The flight took 52 minutes.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 269 nautical miles (310 miles, 499 km). The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 311 knots and reached a top speed of 396 knots at a highest altitude of 31,000 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 112 gallons of fuel, producing about 1.1 metric tons of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 2,674 miles.

This is the second tracked landing by any of Bezos's aircraft at Panola County Airport in three days. The previous one was on October 30, 2026, also by the same Pilatus PC-24. In the 30 days before this flight, all four aircraft in Bezos's fleet made 40 tracked flights, from August 26 to October 30, 2026. The most common destinations in that period were Lafayette (10 landings), Miami (7 landings), and Dallas (2 landings). The aircraft had been on the ground for about 43 hours before this flight, following a previous tracked landing on October 30 at Lafayette.

Jeff Bezos is the executive chairman of Amazon and founder of Blue Origin. The Pilatus PC-24 is a short-field-capable jet that Bezos uses for trips to smaller airfields, and Batesville has been a recurring stop in the aircraft's recent flight history. No public events or appearances tied to Bezos or his companies were reported in the area on the day of the flight.

The aircraft departed from Lafayette Regional Airport, which has a longest runway of 8,000 feet and sits at an elevation of 42 feet. It landed at Panola County Airport, which has a runway of 5,001 feet at an elevation of 221 feet. The flight used 13 percent of the aircraft's maximum range.

The flight from Lafayette to Batesville covered 271 nautical miles and took 47 minutes. That trip on October 30 was the previous tracked landing at Panola County Airport. The Pilatus PC-24 had flown from Oxford, Mississippi, to Lafayette earlier that same day, a 51-minute leg of 282 nautical miles.

Batesville is 711 nautical miles from Bezos's home base at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport. The Pilatus PC-24 is a light jet with unimproved runway capability. Bezos owns three other aircraft: two Gulfstream G650ERs and a Gulfstream G700. One of the G650ERs, tail N271DV, was listed for sale in December 2024 for about $39 million.

The Pilatus PC-24 burns an estimated 130 US gallons of fuel per hour. The longest leg flown by any of Bezos's four aircraft in the 30 days before this flight was a 4,160-nautical-mile trip from Kailua-Kona to Miami on October 11, 2026, in the Gulfstream G700 N11AF.