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

Larry Ellison's Cessna Citation CJ4, tail number N417C, flew from Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport in San Diego to Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday, November 8, 2026. The aircraft departed at 05:20 UTC and landed at 05:49 UTC, spending 29 minutes in the air.

The departure airport, Montgomery-Gibbs Executive, has a longest runway of 4,598 ft at an elevation of 427 ft. Los Angeles International's longest runway is 12,894 ft, at 125 ft elevation. The flight used about 4% of the aircraft's range. The Cessna Citation CJ4 is the largest CJ model, with a 311 cu ft cabin and Pro Line 21 avionics.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 97 nautical miles, or 112 miles. The flight averaged a ground speed of 205 kt and reached a top speed of 356 kt, climbing to a highest altitude of 9,900 ft. Our estimate puts fuel burn at about 62 US gallons and CO2 at about 594 kg (0.6 metric tons), roughly the same as driving a car 1,470 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.

This is the eighth tracked landing at Los Angeles by any of Ellison's three aircraft in the window from September 2 to November 7, 2026. The previous landing at Los Angeles was 20 days earlier, on October 18, also by N417C. 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 13 flights totaling 20.3 hours in the air.

In the tracked window from September 2 to November 7, 2026, all three of Ellison's aircraft made 40 flights. The most common destinations were West Palm Beach with 9 landings, Los Angeles with 8, and Indiantown with 5. Before this flight, N417C had been on the ground at San Diego for about 6 hours. The longest leg in the prior 30 days was a Gulfstream G650 flight from Van Nuys to West Palm Beach on October 9, covering 2,026 nm.

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. No public events or meetings tied to Ellison or his companies were reported near Los Angeles on this date.

This flight adds one more data point to Ellison's tracked movements, showing the Cessna Citation CJ4 returning to a familiar airport after a short hop from San Diego.