Laurene Powell Jobs's Gulfstream G650 N2N returns to San Jose from Chicago

Laurene Powell Jobs's Gulfstream G650, tail number N2N, landed at Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, at 21:51 UTC. The flight departed Dupage Airport in Chicago at 21:08 UTC and spent 43 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 204 nautical miles, or 234 miles.

The aircraft reached a top altitude of 24,000 feet and a top ground speed of 454 knots, with an average ground speed of 285 knots. Our estimate puts fuel burned at about 329 US gallons, producing about 3,160 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 7,821 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 13th tracked landing at San Jose in the window of 40 flights since June 18, 2026. The last landing at San Jose was on October 26, 16 days before this flight. In the 30 days before this flight, N2N visited 6 airports in two countries and flew about 10,241 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 20 hours on the ground in Santa Barbara before departing for San Jose.

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. San Jose is near her home base and 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 7 flights totaling 24.2 hours in the air, producing an estimated 107,035 kilograms of CO2.

The flight from Dupage Airport to San Jose used about 3 percent of the aircraft's range. The Gulfstream G650 has a range of 7,000 nautical miles and a ceiling of 51,000 feet. The jet holds more than 110 speed records and was launched in 2005. Our estimate puts fuel burn at 460 US gallons per hour.

In the 30-day window before this flight, N2N's most common destinations were San Jose with 12 landings, Camarillo with 6 landings, and Los Angeles with 3 landings. The aircraft also flew from San Jose to Santa Barbara on the same day, a flight of 53 minutes covering 203 nautical miles.

The subject's 255-foot motor yacht Venus, built by Feadship in 2012, was last seen in the Tyrrhenian Sea 15 hours ago, according to AIS tracking via our partner site celebyachts.com. The vessel was 5,190 nautical miles from San Jose and 5,273 nautical miles from Chicago at that time.

Dupage Airport has a longest runway of 7,571 feet at an elevation of 759 feet. San Jose's longest runway is 11,000 feet at 62 feet elevation.