Larry Page's aircraft lands at Sluder Airstrip as Telstra faces regulatory heat

Larry Page's aircraft, the Gulfstream G650ER tail number N618PB, was tracked departing Provo Municipal Airport in Utah at 12:22 UTC on July 10, 2026, and arriving at Sluder Airstrip in Idaho just 39 minutes later, having reached a maximum altitude of 30,000 feet and a top ground speed of 511.9 knots. As always, celebplanes tracks aircraft registrations — not people — and cannot confirm whether Larry Page was aboard this short hop from Provo to the remote Idaho strip.

If Larry Page was on the flight, he would have arrived in Idaho the same week Telstra's chief executive Vicki Brady returned early from a family trip abroad to confront the aftermath of a mass outage that cut hundreds of Australians off from the Triple Zero emergency service, as reported by watoday.com.au. The outage, which occurred on Wednesday July 8, is believed internally to have been triggered by a cheap, decade-old SyncServer S300 that reached the end of its supported life and was never replaced, per company sources cited in the report. Brady faced a press conference on Friday July 10, the same day of this flight, to apologize and face questions from Communications Minister Anika Wells, who said Telstra must “face the music.”

Larry Page is not involved in Telstra's day-to-day operations, but he remains an Alphabet board member with roughly 26.3% voting power, and together with Sergey Brin controls a combined ~51–52.7% of Alphabet's voting shares. Telstra is a major Australian telecommunications firm, and the outage — which also affected emergency calls during a woman's death in South Australia, according to family members — has drawn intense scrutiny from regulators, with the ACMA investigating potential civil penalties of up to $30 million. The timing of this flight, if Page was aboard, would follow a week of significant aircraft movements tracked to the same owner, including trips between Provo and various Idaho airfields on July 7, 8, and 9, suggesting a pattern of regional movement rather than a single event.

This short flight from Provo — Larry Page's declared home base — to Sluder Airstrip is the latest in a string of brief Idaho hops for the fleet managed by Blue City Holdings. The aircraft's movements this week fit Page's reclusive profile since stepping down as Alphabet CEO in 2019, with the Idaho airstrip near the Salmon River offering the kind of privacy the billionaire has sought following his aggressive tax-avoidance maneuvers in late 2025, which included purchasing two Miami mansions for $173.4 million and relocating his family office to Delaware to sidestep a proposed California wealth tax.

Whether or not Larry Page was aboard, the aircraft's arrival in Idaho on the same day Telstra's CEO faced the music for a crisis blamed on a $22,000 device left to rot is a quiet reminder that the owners of these machines often have far bigger things on their minds than the flight itself.