Larry Ellison's Cessna Citation CJ4 flies 97 nm from Los Angeles to San Diego

Larry Ellison's Cessna Citation CJ4, tail number N417C, flew from Los Angeles International Airport (KLAX) to Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport (KMYF) in San Diego on Saturday, November 7, 2026. The aircraft departed at 22:27 UTC and landed at 22:54 UTC, spending 26 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 97 nautical miles, or 112 miles.

The flight averaged a ground speed of 221 kt and reached a top speed of 368 kt, climbing to a highest altitude of 12,950 ft. Our estimate puts fuel burn at about 57 US gallons and CO2 at about 550 kg (0.6 metric tons), roughly the same as driving a car 1,361 miles. The Cessna Citation CJ4 is a light jet with a range of 2,165 nm, a top speed of Mach 0.77, and a ceiling of 45,000 ft. It typically seats seven passengers and up to ten.

The flight used about 4 percent of the aircraft's range. The departure airport, Los Angeles International, has a longest runway of 12,894 feet at an elevation of 125 feet. The arrival airport, Montgomery-Gibbs Executive, has a longest runway of 4,598 feet at an elevation of 427 feet. The distance from Ellison's home base at President Donald J. Trump International Airport in West Palm Beach to San Diego is 1,956 nautical miles.

This is the first tracked landing at San Diego by any of Ellison's three aircraft in the window from September 2 to October 28, 2026. The most common destinations in that window were West Palm Beach (10 landings), Los Angeles (8 landings), and Indiantown (5 landings). Ellison's home base is President Donald J. Trump International Airport in West Palm Beach, and his usual destinations include Witham Field, Van Nuys, San Jose, Honolulu, London Oxford, and Kenora. In the 30 days before this flight, his fleet made 12 flights totaling 19.9 hours in the air.

Larry Ellison is the co-founder, chairman, and CTO of Oracle Corporation, with a net worth of roughly $194 to $196 billion. He is also the controlling shareholder of Paramount Skydance, holding about 50 percent. He filed a declaration of domicile in Manalapan, Florida in May 2023 and owns a $173 million estate there, about 20 minutes from Mar-a-Lago. No public events or meetings tied to Ellison or his companies were reported near San Diego on this date.

Before this flight, Ellison's fleet of three aircraft made 40 tracked flights from September 2 to October 28, 2026. The Cessna Citation CJ4 had been on the ground about 20 days since its previous tracked landing at Los Angeles on October 18. The longest leg in that 30-day window was a Gulfstream G650 flight from Van Nuys to West Palm Beach on October 9, covering 2,026 nautical miles.

This flight adds one more data point to Ellison's tracked movements, showing the Cessna Citation CJ4 making a short hop between two Southern California airports.