Len Blavatnik's Gulfstream G650 N761LE flies 89 nm from Philadelphia to Newburgh

Len Blavatnik's Gulfstream G650, tail number N761LE, flew from Northeast Philadelphia Airport (KPNE) to New York Stewart International Airport (KSWF) in Newburgh on Wednesday, October 21, 2026. The flight departed at 16:46 UTC and landed at 17:16 UTC, spending 30 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 89 nautical miles, or 102 miles.

The Gulfstream G650, which holds more than 110 speed records and was launched in 2005, used only 1 percent of its range on this 30-minute hop. Northeast Philadelphia Airport has a longest runway of 7,000 feet at an elevation of 120 feet. New York Stewart International Airport's longest runway is 11,817 feet at 491 feet.

The aircraft climbed to a highest altitude of 12,700 feet and reached a top ground speed of 384 knots. Its average ground speed for the trip was 176 knots. Celebplanes estimates the flight burned about 217 US gallons of jet fuel, producing about 2,088 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 5,169 miles. The Gulfstream G650 is an Ultra Long Range jet with a range of 7,000 nautical miles, a top speed of Mach 0.925, and a ceiling of 51,000 feet. It typically seats 12 passengers and can carry up to 19.

This was the sixth tracked landing at Newburgh in the window from August 29 to October 21, 2026. The previous landing at the same airport was on October 15, seven days earlier. In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited 12 airports in one country and flew about 12,004 nautical miles. The longest leg in that period was from White Plains to Santa Barbara on September 28, covering 2,203 nautical miles. The most common destinations in the tracked window were Newburgh, Teterboro, and Van Nuys, each with five or four landings.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft completed 19 flights totaling 30.1 hours in the air. Celebplanes estimates those flights produced about 124,222 kilograms of CO2. The jet burns about 430 US gallons of fuel per hour.

Len Blavatnik is the founder of Access Industries, a holding company that controls most of Warner Music Group. Newburgh's Stewart International Airport is about 60 miles north of New York City, where Warner Music Group is based. The flight arrived on a Wednesday, a typical day for business travel in the region. No public events or court dates tied to Blavatnik or his companies were scheduled for this date in the New York area.

The aircraft had been on the ground for about one hour before this flight, following a previous tracked landing at Philadelphia earlier on October 21. That same day, the jet also flew from Allentown to Philadelphia and back, as well as from Newburgh to Philadelphia. The pattern of short hops in the Northeast is consistent with the aircraft's recent activity.

The aircraft's tracked flights in the window from August 29 to October 21, 2026, numbered 34. Earlier landings at Newburgh in that window totaled five, with the last one on October 15.

The flight is a routine movement of a private jet. It adds one more landing to the aircraft's record at Newburgh, an airport it uses regularly.