Lachlan Murdoch's Gulfstream G800 flies 48 nm from Trenton to Teterboro

Lachlan Murdoch's Gulfstream G800, tail N888NC, flew from Trenton Mercer Airport in Ewing Township, New Jersey, to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey on Sunday, November 8, 2026. The flight departed at 15:09 UTC and landed at 15:33 UTC, spending 25 minutes in the air. The short hop covered a great-circle distance of 48 nautical miles, or 55 miles.

The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 115 knots and reached a top speed of 297 knots, with a highest altitude of 6,050 feet. The flight used about 1 percent of the G800's 8,200-nautical-mile range. Celebplanes estimates the trip burned about 179 US gallons of fuel, producing roughly 1,718 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 4,252 miles. The Gulfstream G800 is an ultra-long-range jet that can seat up to 19 passengers and has a ceiling of 51,000 feet. This was the seventh tracked landing at Teterboro for N888NC since July 2026, and the first since October 27, 12 days earlier. The aircraft had been on the ground at Trenton Mercer for about 10 days before this flight. Over the past 30 days, the jet visited five airports in two countries and flew about 20,827 nautical miles. Other aircraft at Teterboro in the 24 hours before this landing included a Gulfstream V linked to Lady Gaga, which landed about 22 hours earlier, an Embraer Lineage 1000E linked to Howard Lutnick, which landed about 20 hours earlier, and a Gulfstream G500 linked to Steve Tisch, which landed about 15 hours earlier. Lachlan Murdoch is the executive chairman of Fox Corp. Teterboro is a common stop for aircraft operating in the New York region, and the Murdoch family has used the airport before for short repositioning flights. Fox is scheduled to report quarterly earnings next week, as noted by celebplanes. The company's board approved a $2.5 billion share buyback on October 27, per Reuters. It follows a pattern of brief hops between Trenton Mercer and Teterboro that the aircraft has made several times since July. The Gulfstream G800 is the world's longest-range business jet, certified in April 2025. It has a top speed of Mach 0.935, or 516 knots. Trenton Mercer Airport's longest runway is 6,006 feet at an elevation of 213 feet. Teterboro Airport's longest runway is 6,997 feet at an elevation of 9 feet.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft made 12 flights totaling 45.8 hours in the air. Celebplanes estimates those flights produced about 189,219 kilograms of CO2. The longest leg in that period was from Sydney (Mascot) to Los Angeles on October 27, covering 6,513 nautical miles.

Recent flights by the same owner include a trip from Teterboro to Ewing Township on October 29, lasting 15 minutes over 47 nautical miles. On October 27, the aircraft flew from Los Angeles to Teterboro in 4 hours 30 minutes, covering 2,132 nautical miles. That same day, it had flown from Sydney (Mascot) to Los Angeles in 13 hours 9 minutes.

Other recent flights include a Melbourne to Sydney (Mascot) hop on October 26, lasting 1 hour 11 minutes over 381 nautical miles, and a Sydney (Mascot) to Melbourne flight on October 23, lasting 1 hour 20 minutes. The aircraft also flew from Teterboro to Los Angeles on October 17 in 4 hours 52 minutes.