Kim Kardashian's Gulfstream G650ER N1980K flies 3-minute hop at London Luton

Kim Kardashian's Gulfstream G650ER, registered N1980K, flew from London Luton Airport to London Luton Airport on Saturday, November 14, 2026. The flight departed at 18:32 UTC and landed at 18:34 UTC, spending 3 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 0 nautical miles, as the departure and arrival airports are the same.

The aircraft covered 0 nm at an average ground speed of 124 knots, reaching a highest altitude of 575 feet. The flight burned an estimated 21 US gallons of fuel, producing about 198 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 490 miles. The Gulfstream G650ER is an ultra-long-range jet with a range of 7,500 nm, a top speed of Mach 0.925, a ceiling of 51,000 feet, and seating for up to 19 passengers.

This was the 4th tracked landing at London Luton in the window from August 28 to November 14, 2026, and the first since September 21, 54 days earlier. Van Nuys Airport is the home base on file for N1980K. In the 24 hours before this landing, one other tracked aircraft arrived at London Luton: a Bombardier Global Express XRS registered to Nestoil, landing about 12 hours earlier.

Kim Kardashian is a media personality and businesswoman with a net worth of about $1.7 billion, mostly from her stake in Skims. She lives in a Hidden Hills mansion she retained after her divorce from Kanye West. Her aircraft, a Gulfstream G650ER, has been tracked on frequent short hops between Van Nuys and Camarillo, as well as longer runs to destinations including San Diego, Savannah, Coeur d'Alene, and Athens.

The flight ended at the same airport it departed, and the aircraft had been on the ground for about 0 hours before this trip, following a previous tracked landing at Lutterworth, Leicestershire. The movement itself is a brief repositioning at a familiar airport for a jet that has made this short leg dozens of times.

London Luton Airport has a longest runway of 7,093 feet and sits at an elevation of 526 feet. The distance from the aircraft's home base at Van Nuys Airport to London Luton is 4,705 nautical miles.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft made 10 flights totaling 55.7 hours in the air. Those flights produced an estimated 251,603 kilograms of CO2. The longest leg in that period was from Rome to Los Angeles on October 24, covering 5,519 nautical miles.

The aircraft's most common destinations in the tracked window from August 28 to November 14 were Van Nuys with 15 landings, Luton with 3 landings, and Los Angeles with 2 landings. The previous flight before this one was from Van Nuys to Lutterworth, Leicestershire, on November 14, lasting 9 hours and 17 minutes over 4,677 nautical miles.