Laurene Powell Jobs's Gulfstream G650 N2N lands at Santa Barbara from San Jose

Laurene Powell Jobs's Gulfstream G650, tail number N2N, landed at Santa Barbara Municipal Airport (KSBA) on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, at 00:57 UTC. The flight departed Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport (KSJC) at 00:04 UTC and spent 53 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 203 nautical miles, or 234 miles.

The aircraft reached a top altitude of 25,000 feet and a top ground speed of 436 knots, with an average ground speed of 229 knots. Our estimate puts fuel burned at about 408 US gallons, producing about 3,921 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 9,704 miles. The Gulfstream G650 is an ultra-long-range jet that can seat up to 19 passengers and fly at Mach 0.925.

This was N2N's first tracked landing at Santa Barbara in the window of 40 flights since June 16, 2026. In the 30 days before this flight, N2N visited 5 airports in two countries and flew about 10,038 nautical miles. The longest leg in that period was Chicago to Paris on October 17, covering 3,595 nautical miles in 7 hours 24 minutes. The aircraft had spent about 15 days on the ground in San Jose before departing for Santa Barbara. Other tracked aircraft arriving at Santa Barbara in the 24 hours before this landing included a Gulfstream G700 linked to Michael Dell, which landed about three hours earlier, and a Gulfstream G650ER linked to Goldman Sachs, which landed under an hour earlier.

Laurene Powell Jobs is the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and the founder and chair of Emerson Collective, an organization with $1.8 billion in assets. She holds a Wharton BA and a Stanford MBA. Her properties include a family home in Palo Alto and a record-breaking $70 million mansion in Pacific Heights, San Francisco. Santa Barbara is a coastal city about 90 miles northwest of Los Angeles, and the area is home to several of her known interests, including the nearby Paradise Cove compound in Malibu valued at about $172 million.

The aircraft is registered to Marmalade Skies LLC. The iconic N2N tail number was inherited from Steve Jobs' Gulfstream G-V. In the 30 days before this flight, N2N completed 6 flights totaling 23.3 hours in the air, producing an estimated 103,114 kilograms of CO2.

The Gulfstream G650 has a range of 7,000 nautical miles and a ceiling of 51,000 feet. It holds more than 110 speed records and was launched in 2005. The aircraft burns an estimated 460 US gallons of fuel per hour. This flight used about 3 percent of the aircraft's range.

In the 30 days before this flight, N2N's most common tracked destinations were San Jose with 12 landings, Camarillo with 6 landings, and Los Angeles with 3 landings. Recent flights by the same owner include a 41-minute trip from Camarillo to San Jose on October 26, 2026, and a 44-minute trip from San Jose to Camarillo on October 24, 2026.

Santa Barbara Municipal Airport has a longest runway of 6,037 feet at an elevation of 13 feet. San Jose's longest runway is 11,000 feet at 62 feet elevation.