Lawrence Stroll's Global 7500 hops from Münster to Payerne in 17 minutes

Lawrence Stroll's Bombardier Global 7500, tail number OE-LSS, flew from Münster Airfield (LSPU) in Switzerland to Payerne Air Base (LSMP) on Friday, October 30, 2026. The aircraft departed at 14:05 UTC and landed at 14:22 UTC, spending 17 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 52 nautical miles, or 60 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 182 knots and reached a highest altitude of 22,000 feet. Celebplanes estimates the flight burned about 129 US gallons of fuel and produced about 1,239 kg of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 3,067 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.

In the tracked window of 40 flights from September 9 to October 29, 2026, the aircraft had landed at Payerne six times. The last landing at Payerne before this flight was on October 4, 26 days earlier. Its most common destinations in that period were Carterton, Oxfordshire, with seven landings, and Farnborough, Hampshire, and Payerne, each with six landings. The aircraft had been on the ground for about 19 hours before this flight, following a previous tracked landing at Segrate (MI) on October 29.

Lawrence Stroll is a Canadian billionaire fashion investor who led the 2018 consortium that bought Force India and rebranded it Racing Point, then Aston Martin Aramco F1, where he is executive chairman. He is the father of Aston Martin driver Lance Stroll. Stroll is based in Monaco and Mont-Tremblant, and owns the Circuit Mont-Tremblant in Quebec.

The jet landed within 238 nautical miles of where Stroll's 79-metre yacht Faith was last reported, according to AIS tracking via our partner site celebyachts.com. The vessel was at rest in the Tyrrhenian Sea as of a fix logged 52 minutes before the flight's arrival. The convergence of the aircraft and the yacht in the same region is a factual observation; whether anyone boarded the vessel is not known.

The Bombardier Global 7500 has a ceiling of 51,000 feet and four living zones with a 54.4-foot cabin. A Global 8000 upgrade is available. Celebplanes estimates the aircraft burns about 450 US gallons of fuel per hour. On this flight, the top ground speed seen was 427 knots. The departure field at Münster Airfield has an elevation of 4,380 feet. The arrival field at Payerne Air Base has a longest runway of 9,376 feet and an elevation of 1,465 feet.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft used 21 airports in 9 countries and flew about 25,639 nautical miles. The longest leg in that period was from Hettstadt to Seletar on October 7, covering 5,501 nautical miles. Over those 30 days, the jet made 24 flights, spent 63.3 hours in the air, and produced about 273,571 kg of CO2, according to Celebplanes estimates.

The 17-minute hop used about 1 percent of the aircraft's total range. It was a short movement between two Swiss airfields, following a pattern of brief regional flights in the aircraft's recent history.