Jeff Bezos's Pilatus PC-24 N194PJ flies Abbeville to Charleston in 1 hour 35 minutes

Jeff Bezos's Pilatus PC-24, tail N194PJ, departed Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial Airport (KIYA) at 17:24 UTC on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, and landed at Charleston International Airport (KCHS) at 18:59 UTC. The flight took 1 hour and 35 minutes.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 640 nautical miles (736 miles). The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 406 knots and reached a top speed of 463 knots at a highest altitude of 41,000 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 205 gallons of fuel, producing about 2.0 metric tons of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 4,871 miles.

In the 30 days before this flight, all four aircraft in Jeff Bezos's fleet made 40 tracked flights, from August 26 to November 1, 2026. This is the first tracked landing by any of the owner's aircraft at Charleston in that window. The most common destinations in that period were Lafayette (11 landings) and Miami (7 landings). The aircraft had been on the ground for about 3 days before this flight, following a previous tracked landing on November 1 at Lafayette. Other tracked aircraft at Charleston in the 24 hours before this landing were not recorded.

Jeff Bezos is the executive chairman of Amazon and founder of Blue Origin. The flight's arrival at KCHS places the aircraft near Charleston, South Carolina, a city with no known public events or appearances tied to Bezos or his companies reported on the day of the flight. Bezos owns homes in Miami, Beverly Hills, and Van Horn, Texas, among other locations, but none of these are in the Charleston area. The Pilatus PC-24 is a light jet built for short-field and unimproved runway operations, often used for trips to smaller airports.

The aircraft departed from Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial Airport, which has a longest runway of 5,000 feet and sits at an elevation of 16 feet. It landed at Charleston International Airport, which has a runway of 9,001 feet at an elevation of 46 feet. The flight used 32 percent of the aircraft's maximum range.

The aircraft's home base is Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport, 420 nautical miles from Charleston. In the 30 days before this flight, the longest leg among all four of Bezos's aircraft was a 4,160-nautical-mile trip from Kailua-Kona to Miami on October 11, 2026, flown by the Gulfstream G700, tail N11AF.

Recent flights by the same Pilatus PC-24 include a 45-minute, 285-nautical-mile hop from Oxford to Lafayette on November 1, 2026, and a 52-minute, 269-nautical-mile leg from Lafayette to Batesville the same day. The aircraft also flew from Miami to Van Nuys on October 30, 2026, a 4-hour-51-minute, 2,035-nautical-mile trip in the Gulfstream G700.

This flight is one entry in Jeff Bezos's complete flight history for N194PJ and the other three aircraft on the fleet.