Lee Anderson’s Bombardier Global 5000 flies from Montréal to Bedford

The flight departed at 22:31 UTC and landed at 23:18 UTC, spending 47 minutes in the air.

The flight used about 4 percent of the Global 5000's range. The departure airport, Montréal/St-Hubert, has a longest runway of 7,840 feet at an elevation of 90 feet. The arrival airport, Bedford, has a longest runway of 7,011 feet at an elevation of 133 feet.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 216 nautical miles, or 248 miles. The aircraft averaged 276 knots ground speed and reached a top speed of 391 knots, climbing to a highest altitude of 17,075 feet. Based on our estimate, the flight burned about 337 US gallons of jet fuel, producing roughly 3,235 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 8,006 miles. The Bombardier Global 5000 is a large business jet with a range of 5,200 nautical miles, a top speed of Mach 0.89, and a ceiling of 51,000 feet. It typically seats 13 passengers and can carry up to 16.

Before this flight, N702LK had not landed at Bedford in the tracked window. The plane's home base on file is Saint Paul Downtown Holman Field in Minnesota, 954 nautical miles from Bedford. In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited four airports in two countries, flying about 2,691 nautical miles. Another tracked aircraft, a Honeywell Gulfstream G600, landed at Bedford about 11 hours earlier.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft made three tracked flights totaling 6.9 hours in the air. Those flights produced an estimated 28,410 kilograms of CO2. The longest leg in that period was Orlando to Montréal on November 6, covering 1,086 nautical miles in 2 hours 36 minutes.

Lee R. Anderson Sr. ran APi Group, the St. Paul area holding company his father started in 1926 as Asbestos Products Inc. He grew it into one of North America's largest specialty contractors, with dozens of fire-protection, safety and construction firms. It was sold and taken public in 2019. He also built and sold a chain of banks, and he and his wife Penny are major donors to the University of St. Thomas and to veterans' causes. The FAA lists TVPX Aircraft Solutions as trustee for N702LK, a trust that hides the real owner, so the Anderson tie rests on attribution, not a public filing.

The aircraft's recent pattern shows activity between the Midwest, Florida, and the Northeast.

Before this flight, the aircraft had been on the ground at Montréal for about one hour after its previous tracked landing there on November 6. The Global 5000 is a shortened version of the Global Express, designed for shorter missions. The aircraft's estimated fuel burn is 430 US gallons per hour.

The aircraft remains at Bedford as of the time of this report. No further flights have been tracked since landing.