Jerry Jones's Gulfstream V N1DC flies from Dallas to Fayetteville in 43 minutes

Jerry Jones's Gulfstream V, tail number N1DC, flew from Dallas Love Field to Drake Field in Fayetteville on Sunday, November 1, 2026. The flight departed at 11:41 UTC and landed at 12:24 UTC, spending 43 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 230 nautical miles, or about 265 miles.

The flight averaged 324 knots ground speed. It used about 3 percent of the aircraft's total range. The distance from Dallas Love Field to Drake Field is 231 nautical miles.

The aircraft reached a highest altitude of 23,025 feet and a top ground speed of 470 knots. Based on our estimate, the Gulfstream V burned about 305 US gallons of fuel, producing roughly 2,928 kilograms of CO2, equivalent to driving a car 7,248 miles. The Gulfstream V is an ultra-long-range jet with a range of 6,675 nautical miles, a top speed of Mach 0.885, and seating for up to 16 passengers.

This is the first tracked landing by any of Jerry Jones's aircraft at Fayetteville since August 16, 2026. Jerry Jones's home base is Dallas Love Field, and his usual destinations include Las Vegas, Chicago, Miami, Washington, Minneapolis, and Orlando. Before this flight, N1DC had been on the ground for about 5 days, since its previous tracked landing on October 27 at Dallas. In the 30 days before this flight, all of Jerry Jones's aircraft made 12 flights, spending 20.3 hours in the air.

In the 30 days before this flight, the longest leg by any of Jerry Jones's aircraft was a 4,286-nautical-mile trip from Paris to Dallas on October 3. The most common destinations in that window were Dallas with 16 landings, Arlington with 4, and Van Nuys with 2.

Jerry Jones is the owner, president, and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys since 1989, with a net worth of about $13 billion from his energy and oil business, Jones Oil & Land Lease. He lives in Highland Park, Dallas.

If Jerry Jones was aboard, the flight would have positioned him near the university just over a week before the game. The Gulfstream V is registered to the Dallas Cowboys and shares the 'DC' tail convention with the team's Airbus H145, N945DC. The flight adds to a busy period for Jerry Jones's fleet, which has logged 34 flights in the tracked window from August 16 to October 29, 2026, totaling an estimated 81,558 kilograms of CO2 in the 30 days before this flight.

The Gulfstream V has a service ceiling of 51,000 feet. It was the first ultra-long-range jet built by Gulfstream. The aircraft burns an estimated 430 US gallons of fuel per hour.

Dallas Love Field, the departure airport, has a longest runway of 8,800 feet and sits at an elevation of 487 feet. Drake Field, the arrival airport, has a longest runway of 6,005 feet and an elevation of 1,251 feet.