Lawrence Stroll's Bombardier Global 7500 flies Montreal to Albany in 29 minutes

Lawrence Stroll's Bombardier Global 7500, tail number OE-LSS, flew from Montreal Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport to Albany International Airport on Thursday, October 22, 2026. The aircraft departed at 16:58 UTC and landed at 17:27 UTC, spending 29 minutes in the air. The jet is registered in Austria and managed by Skyemotion, and its tail letters match the owner's initials.

The great-circle distance between the two airports was 138 nautical miles, or 159 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 283 knots and reached a highest altitude of 29,000 feet. Celebplanes estimates the flight burned about 220 US gallons of fuel and produced about 2,115 kg of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 5,234 miles. The Global 7500 is an ultra long range jet with a range of 7,700 nautical miles, a top speed of Mach 0.925, and seating for up to 19 passengers.

The Bombardier Global 7500 has a service ceiling of 51,000 feet and a cabin length of 54.4 feet with four living zones. The aircraft burned an estimated 450 US gallons of fuel per hour. This flight used about 2 percent of the aircraft's total range. The top ground speed recorded was 501 knots.

Before this flight, the aircraft had not landed at Albany in the tracked window of 40 flights from September 2 to October 22, 2026. Its most common destinations in that period were Farnborough, Hampshire, and Carterton, Oxfordshire, each with seven landings, and Segrate, Italy, with six landings. The aircraft had been on the ground for about two hours before this flight, following a previous tracked landing at Chibougamau on the same day. Other tracked aircraft that landed at Albany in the 24 hours before this landing included a Bombardier Challenger 850 linked to Corning, about five hours earlier, and a HondaJet HA-420 linked to General Electric, about four hours earlier.

Montreal Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport has a longest runway of 11,000 feet at an elevation of 118 feet. Albany International Airport has a longest runway of 8,500 feet at an elevation of 285 feet.

Lawrence Stroll is a Canadian billionaire fashion investor who led the 2018 consortium that bought Force India and rebranded it as Racing Point, then Aston Martin Aramco F1, where he serves as executive chairman. He is the father of Aston Martin driver Lance Stroll and is based in Monaco and Mont-Tremblant, Quebec. Albany is the capital of New York State and a regional business hub, though no public events or meetings tied to Stroll or his organisation were reported near Albany on this date.

The aircraft's route history shows it has been active across multiple continents in recent weeks, including a 5,501 nautical mile leg from Hettstadt to Seletar on October 7 and a 5,158 nautical mile flight from Tokyo to Luton on October 12. In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited 19 airports in nine countries and flew about 21,932 nautical miles. It completed 28 flights totaling 57.9 hours in the air, with an estimated CO2 output of about 250,221 kilograms.