John Travolta's Dassault Falcon 900B N905FJ flies 217 nm from Dallas to Houston

John Travolta's Dassault Falcon 900B, tail N905FJ, flew from Addison Airport (KADS) in Dallas to William P. Hobby Airport (KHOU) in Houston on Thursday, November 12, 2026. The flight took 1 hour and 7 minutes, departing at 20:32 UTC and landing at 21:39 UTC.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 217 nautical miles, or 250 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 195 knots, reaching a top speed of 496 knots and a highest altitude of 27,075 feet. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 334 US gallons of fuel and produced about 3,206 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 7,936 miles. The Dassault Falcon 900B is a long-range business jet with a range of 4,000 nautical miles, a ceiling of 51,000 feet, and seating for typically 12 passengers.

This was the first tracked landing by one of John Travolta's aircraft at Houston in the window from May 30 to November 3, 2026. John Travolta's home base is Ocala International Airport (KOCF), which is 683 nautical miles from Houston. Usual destinations on file include Naples, Miami, Los Angeles, Van Nuys, Farnborough, and Teterboro. The aircraft had been on the ground for about 49 days since its previous tracked landing on September 25, 2026, also at Dallas.

John Travolta is an actor known for films such as Pulp Fiction, Grease, and Saturday Night Fever. He is a licensed pilot with multiple type ratings including the Boeing 707, 720, 747, and 737. He lives at Jumbolair Aviation Estates, a fly-in community in Ocala, Florida, where his home has a runway in the backyard. William P. Hobby Airport is a major general aviation and commercial airport in Houston, a city with no known public appearance or event tied to John Travolta in the days around this flight.

This short flight returned the Dassault Falcon 900B to the air after a long pause on the ground. The aircraft used just 5 percent of its range on the hop from Dallas to Houston.

The Dassault Falcon 900B has a top speed of Mach 0.87, or 500 knots. Its estimated fuel burn is 300 US gallons per hour. Addison Airport's longest runway is 7,203 feet, at an elevation of 644 feet. William P. Hobby Airport's longest runway is 7,602 feet, at an elevation of 46 feet.

In the 30 days before this flight, all of John Travolta's aircraft together flew 8 flights, totaling 14.3 hours in the air. Those flights covered about 5,254 nautical miles and produced an estimated 79,732 kilograms of CO2. The longest leg in that period was a 1,716-nautical-mile flight from Las Vegas to Pinellas Park on October 22, 2026, flown by a Bombardier Global Express.

The most common destinations for all of John Travolta's aircraft in the tracked window from May 30 to November 3, 2026, were Pinellas Park with 10 landings, Ocala with 5 landings, and Miami with 4 landings. A total of 39 flights were tracked for the owner's fleet in that window.