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If aboard, the timing would suggest a return to the family's California base after a week of European stops.
By celebplanes · 3 min read · Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian's aircraft, a Gulfstream G650ER registered N1980K, was tracked flying from Van Nuys Airport to Camarillo Airport on September 20, 2026, a 3-hour and 6-minute hop that touched down just after 7 p.m. local time. The movement itself is routine — the jet has made this short California leg dozens of times — but the context of the preceding week is not. If Kim Kardashian was aboard, she would have arrived back in the Golden State the same week her aircraft completed a rapid-fire European circuit, touching down in Paris, Milan, and London between September 13 and September 18, per the flight log on celebplanes. That pattern — a dash across the Atlantic, a few days of movement, then a return to Van Nuys — reads less like a vacation and more like a working trip with a tight schedule.
What might explain the trip? The most concrete anchor comes from the same week's news cycle: reports out of the UK, covered by the Times of India, linked Kim Kardashian to a private weekend with Formula One star Lewis Hamilton, with a source telling The Sun that the pair made use of "all the facilities on offer" at a resort-style destination. The aircraft's September 17 leg from Paris to London, and the subsequent September 18 hop from London to the Van Nuys area, would align neatly with a late-week rendezvous in the UK — if Kim Kardashian was on board. The timing is speculative, but the flight path is not: N1980K left Le Bourget on the 17th, touched down at Luton, and was back over California within 48 hours.
Aboard the Gulfstream G650ER


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This is not the first time the aircraft has been tied to a tabloid narrative. The same Gulfstream drew criticism in 2022 for a nine-minute Van Nuys-to-Camarillo hop, a flight that became a symbol of celebrity excess after a Reddit thread flagged it as "way unnecessary." That scrutiny has not faded; the jet still ranks among the most-tracked celebrity aircraft, and every movement is logged and analyzed. The difference now is the destination pattern. While the European run is unusual for a jet that typically shuttles between Van Nuys, Camarillo, and Coeur d'Alene, it fits a known beat: Kim Kardashian has kept a home base in Hidden Hills, and her business interests — Skims, most notably — have been expanding internationally. A week of Paris, Milan, and London stops, if tied to investor meetings or a product push, would be unremarkable for someone with her portfolio.
What the flight log cannot tell us is who was aboard. The aircraft is registered to Kim Kardashian, but the ADS-B data only confirms the plane moved. The nine-minute hop in 2022, after all, may have been a repositioning flight with no one on board. So the wry note here is familiar: the plane is the celebrity, not the person. If Kim Kardashian was on this week's European swing, she would have been doing exactly what her flight history suggests she does — moving fast, staying ahead of the news cycle, and leaving the rest of us to guess. If she wasn't, well, the jet still made the trip, and the tracking data will keep doing its quiet work. Either way, the aircraft landed in Camarillo on September 20, and that is the only fact that needs no speculation. [timesofindia.indiatimes.com](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/international-sports/what-makes-kim-kardashians-kim-air-jet-a-150-million-flying-palace-during-her-overseas-lewis-hamilton-visit/articleshow/128094676.cms) [ibtimes.co.uk](https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/kim-kardashians-viral-9-minute-flight-explained-why-even-kris-jenner-says-enough-her-excess-1792082) [celebplanes.com](https://www.celebplanes.com/celebrity/kim-kardashian) [acejet.com](https://acejet.com/celebrity-jets/kim-kardashian/) [celebrityprivatejettracker.com](https://celebrityprivatejettracker.com/kim-kardashian-n1980k/)