Johnson & Johnson's Gulfstream G650ER flies from Fort Lauderdale to Anchorage in 7 hours 38 minutes

Johnson & Johnson's Gulfstream G650ER, tail number N400J, flew from Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport in Florida to Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport in Alaska on Saturday, October 31, 2026. The flight departed at 14:04 UTC and landed at 21:41 UTC, spending 7 hours and 38 minutes in the air. This was the aircraft's second tracked landing at Anchorage in the past 32 days.

The great-circle distance of the flight was 3,468 nautical miles, about 46 percent of the aircraft's 7,500 nm range. The Gulfstream G650ER averaged 455 knots ground speed and reached a highest altitude of 43,025 feet. Based on our estimate, the aircraft burned about 3,584 US gallons of fuel, producing about 34,431 kg of CO2, roughly equal to driving a car 85,225 miles. The G650ER typically seats up to 19 passengers and has a top speed of Mach 0.925.

This was the second tracked landing at Anchorage by N400J in the past four months. Johnson & Johnson's home base is Morristown Municipal Airport in New Jersey, 2,909 nm from the arrival airport. Its usual destinations include Washington Dulles, Newark Liberty, London Heathrow, and Amsterdam Schiphol. In the 30 days before this flight, N400J visited 15 airports in 9 countries and flew about 29,974 nautical miles. Another tracked aircraft, a Gulfstream G700 registered to Joseph Tsai, landed at Anchorage about 13 hours earlier.

Johnson & Johnson is a global pharmaceutical and medical-devices company headquartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey, with CEO Joaquin Duato. The company's mixed fleet also includes a Gulfstream G550 and a Citation CJ4, plus a helicopter for short hops between New Jersey campuses. Anchorage is a common refueling stop for trans-Pacific flights, and the aircraft's longest leg in the 30 days before this flight was from Rome to Fort Lauderdale on October 18, covering 4,496 nm. No specific Johnson & Johnson event was tied to this landing.

Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport has a longest runway of 9,000 feet and sits at an elevation of 9 feet. Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport's longest runway is 12,400 feet, with an elevation of 152 feet. The aircraft reached a top ground speed of 527 knots during the flight.

This flight followed a busy week for N400J. On October 31, it flew from Ewing Township to Fort Lauderdale. On October 26, it went from Madrid to Ewing Township. Earlier in the month, the aircraft traveled from Boston to Madrid, and from Ewing Township to Boston. In the 30 days before this flight, N400J flew 13 flights totaling 66.3 hours in the air. Those flights produced an estimated 299,471 kg of CO2.

In the tracked window from June 17 to October 31, 2026, N400J made 35 flights. Its most common destination was Ewing Township, with 11 landings. Fort Lauderdale saw three landings, and Oakland had two.

The aircraft's previous tracked landing before this flight was at Fort Lauderdale on October 31, giving it about one hour on the ground before departing for Anchorage. The Gulfstream G650ER has a service ceiling of 51,000 feet and burns an estimated 470 US gallons of fuel per hour.