Kimbal Musk's Gulfstream G600 N831FR lands at Van Nuys after 11 minute hop from Long Beach

Kimbal Musk's Gulfstream G600, tail number N831FR, flew from Long Beach International Airport to Van Nuys Airport on Monday, October 26, 2026. The aircraft departed Long Beach at 18:36 UTC and landed at Van Nuys at 18:46 UTC. The flight took 11 minutes.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 29 nm, or 33 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 164 kt and reached a top speed of 270 kt. Its highest altitude during the flight was 4,850 ft. Based on our estimate, the Gulfstream G600 burned about 78 US gallons of fuel, producing about 746 kg of CO2. That is about the same as driving a car 1,845 miles. The Gulfstream G600 is an Ultra Long Range jet with a range of 6,600 nm, a top speed of Mach 0.925, and a ceiling of 51,000 ft. It typically seats 10 passengers and can carry up to 19.

The Gulfstream G600 is a stretched version of the G500 and has four passenger zones. Its estimated fuel burn is 440 US gallons per hour. Long Beach Airport has a longest runway of 10,000 feet at an elevation of 60 feet. Van Nuys Airport's longest runway is 8,001 feet at an elevation of 802 feet.

Before this flight, N831FR had not landed at Van Nuys in the previous 20 tracked flights. The most common destination in that window was Denver, with six landings. The aircraft had been on the ground for about four days since its last tracked landing at Long Beach on October 23. In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited 14 airports in two countries and flew about 9,198 nm. Other tracked aircraft at Van Nuys in the 24 hours before this landing included a Gulfstream V for Caesars, a Bombardier Global 7500 for Jay-Z and Beyoncé, a Gulfstream G650ER for Kim Kardashian, a Gulfstream IV for Paris Hilton, a Gulfstream V for Jim Carrey, and a Gulfstream G500 for Steve Tisch.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft flew 16 flights totaling 23.6 hours in the air. The longest leg in that period was Denver to Orlando on October 21, covering 1,393 nautical miles. The estimated CO2 output for those 30 days was about 99,944 kg.

Recent flights by the same owner include a 20-minute hop from Los Angeles to Long Beach on October 23, covering 14 nautical miles. On October 22, the aircraft flew from Denver to Los Angeles in 1 hour 58 minutes over 733 nautical miles, and earlier that day from Orlando to Denver in 3 hours 15 minutes over 1,361 nautical miles.

Kimbal Musk is an entrepreneur, restaurateur, and younger brother of Elon Musk. He co-founded Zip2 with Elon in 1995, backed PayPal and SpaceX, and founded The Kitchen Restaurant Group and the Big Green nonprofit. He is a long-serving board member of Tesla and SpaceX and is based in Boulder, Colorado. Van Nuys Airport is a major general aviation hub in the Los Angeles area, close to Musk's business interests in California.

If Kimbal Musk was aboard, the short flight from Long Beach to Van Nuys may have been a simple repositioning move or a connection to a meeting in the San Fernando Valley. No public events or court dates tied to Kimbal Musk were found near Van Nuys on this date.