Lachlan Murdoch's Gulfstream G800 flies 232 nm round trip from Sydney

Lachlan Murdoch's Gulfstream G800, tail N888NC, flew from Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport back to the same airport on Saturday, November 14, 2026. The flight departed at 19:19 UTC and landed at 20:02 UTC, spending 44 minutes in the air. The aircraft covered a great-circle distance of 232 nautical miles, or 267 miles.

The flight used about 3 percent of the G800's 8,200-nautical-mile range. The aircraft reached a top ground speed of 500 knots and a highest altitude of 51,000 feet. Celebplanes estimates the trip burned about 314 US gallons of fuel, producing roughly 3,019 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 7,473 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.

The aircraft's average ground speed on this leg was 318 knots. The Gulfstream G800, certified in April 2025, is the world's longest-range business jet. Celebplanes estimates the jet burns about 430 US gallons of fuel per hour. Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport has a longest runway of 12,999 feet and an elevation of 21 feet.

This was the ninth tracked landing at Sydney for N888NC since tracking began on August 6, 2026. The last landing at Sydney before this flight was on October 26, 19 days earlier. The aircraft had been on the ground at Los Angeles for about 13 hours before this flight. Over the past 30 days, the jet visited 8 airports in 2 countries and flew about 19,456 nautical miles. Another aircraft, a Bombardier Global 7500 linked to John Gandel, landed at Sydney about 14 hours before this flight.

Lachlan Murdoch is the executive chairman of Fox Corp. 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. Sydney is a common stop for aircraft operating in the Asia-Pacific region, and the Murdoch family has used the airport before for flights to and from Australia.

In the 30 days before this flight, the jet made 17 flights totaling 45.2 hours in the air, with an estimated 186,525 kilograms of CO2. The most common destinations in that window were Los Angeles with 9 landings, Sydney with 8, and Teterboro with 7. Recent flights by the same owner include a November 11 trip from Austin to Teterboro covering 1,313 nautical miles in 2 hours 55 minutes.

The flight followed a pattern of short hops that the aircraft has made several times since August. On November 14, the jet flew from Los Angeles to Los Angeles, covering 218 nautical miles in 35 minutes. The day before, it flew from Teterboro to Los Angeles, covering 2,134 nautical miles in 4 hours and 53 minutes. The longest leg in the past 30 days was from Sydney to Los Angeles on October 27, covering 6,513 nautical miles.