Jimmie Johnson's Bombardier Challenger 300 flies from Oklahoma City to Dallas in 39 minutes

Jimmie Johnson's Bombardier Challenger 300, tail number N704JB, flew from Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport to Dallas Love Field on Sunday, November 15, 2026. The flight departed at 16:31 UTC and landed at 17:10 UTC, spending 39 minutes in the air. It covered a great-circle distance of 160 nautical miles, or 185 miles, at an average ground speed of 248 knots. The aircraft reached a highest altitude of 14,675 feet and a top ground speed of 384 knots.

The aircraft is a super midsize jet with a top speed of Mach 0.83, or 470 knots. It typically seats eight passengers, with room for up to ten. The cabin measures 930 cubic feet. Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport has a longest runway of 9,802 feet at an elevation of 1,295 feet. Dallas Love Field's longest runway is 8,800 feet at an elevation of 487 feet.

The Bombardier Challenger 300 is a super midsize jet with a range of 3,065 nautical miles and a service ceiling of 45,000 feet. It typically seats eight to ten passengers and burns about 250 gallons of fuel per hour. On this flight, the aircraft burned an estimated 162 gallons of fuel, producing about 1,556 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 3,852 miles. The 160-nautical-mile leg used about 5 percent of the aircraft's total range.

In the 30 days before this flight, N704JB made 40 tracked flights, visiting 10 airports in one country and flying about 5,731 nautical miles. The longest leg in that period was from North Kingstown to Concord on October 20, covering 575 nautical miles. Over the 30 days, the aircraft logged 14 flights, 16.9 hours in the air, and an estimated 40,626 kilograms of CO2.

This was the first tracked landing by N704JB at Dallas Love Field in the 30-day window before this flight. The aircraft's most common destination in that period was Concord-Padgett Regional Airport in North Carolina, with 16 landings, followed by Teterboro Airport in New Jersey with six landings. Before this flight, the aircraft had spent about 36 hours on the ground in Norman, Oklahoma, after arriving from Nashville on November 14. Another tracked aircraft, a Beechcraft King Air B200 belonging to Sarah Huckabee Sanders, had landed at Dallas about 15 hours earlier.

Recent flights by the same owner include a trip from Nashville to Norman on November 14, covering 531 nautical miles in 1 hour 35 minutes. On November 13, the aircraft flew from Concord to Nashville, 299 nautical miles in 58 minutes. Other recent legs include Miami to Concord on November 11, 569 nautical miles in 1 hour 35 minutes, and Concord to Miami on November 10, 573 nautical miles in 1 hour 40 minutes.

Jimmie Johnson is a NASCAR and IndyCar driver based in the United States. Dallas is a major transportation hub and home to several NASCAR-related businesses and events.

The flight from Oklahoma City to Dallas was a short hop that used only a small fraction of the aircraft's range. N704JB returned to its home base at Concord-Padgett Regional Airport after the brief stop in Dallas.