Bombardier Global 7500 N888GX lands back in Perth after five-hour local flight

Kerry Stokes's Bombardier Global 7500, tail number N888GX, departed Perth International Airport (YPPH) at 03:58 UTC on Friday, November 13, 2026, and landed back at the same airport at 09:41 UTC. The flight lasted 5 hours and 42 minutes. The aircraft reached a top ground speed of 526 knots and a highest altitude of 47,000 feet.

The aircraft departed from Perth Airport, which has a longest runway of 11,299 feet and an elevation of 67 feet. It returned to the same airport.

The distance flown on this leg was not a straight line from one airport to another, as the departure and arrival fields were the same. Based on our estimate of 450 US gallons of fuel burn per hour, the aircraft burned about 2,566 US gallons. That produced an estimated 24,651 kg (24.7 metric tons) of CO2, roughly equal to driving a car 61,018 miles. The Bombardier Global 7500 is an ultra-long-range jet with a top speed of Mach 0.925, a ceiling of 51,000 feet, and a range of 7,700 nautical miles. It typically seats 13 passengers and can carry up to 19.

This was the eighth tracked landing at Perth in the window of 18 flights we have recorded since July 2026. The previous landing at Perth was on November 10, 2026, three days before this flight. Over the past 30 days, the aircraft visited five airports in one country and flew about 4,141 nautical miles. The most common destinations in the tracked window have been Perth (7 landings), Essendon Fields (5 landings), and Sydney Mascot (5 landings). Recent trips include a flight from Newman to Perth on November 10, and a longer leg from Darwin to Sydney on October 26 that covered 1,768 nautical miles.

In the days before this flight, the aircraft flew from Newman to Perth on November 10, a trip of 1 hour and 12 minutes covering 523 nautical miles. Other recent flights include a 4-hour 20-minute leg from Sydney Mascot to Rockhampton on October 27, and a 35-minute flight from Perth to Perth on October 19.

Kerry Stokes is the chairman of Seven Group Holdings, an Australian company with operations in media, mining services, and industrial equipment. Perth is the capital of Western Australia and a major hub for the resources and energy sectors that are central to Seven Group's business. No public events or meetings tied to Stokes or Seven Group were found near the airport for the date of this flight.

Kerry Stokes also owns the yacht Antipodean, a 36-meter vessel built in 1987, according to AIS tracking from our partner site celebyachts.com. No owned vessel is near this flight.

This flight added to a month that already included four flights totaling 9.8 hours in the air and an estimated 42,354 kg of CO2, according to our tracking.