Marc Anthony's Gulfstream G550 N513MA completes a 17-minute hop across Houston

Marc Anthony's Gulfstream G550, tail number N513MA, flew from Sugar Land Regional Airport (KSGR) to William P. Hobby Airport (KHOU) in Houston on Friday, November 13, 2026. The aircraft departed at 01:19 UTC and landed at 01:36 UTC, spending 17 minutes in the air. The flight covered a great-circle distance of 21 nautical miles (24 miles) at an average ground speed of 74 knots.

The aircraft reached a highest altitude of 2,950 feet and a top ground speed of 232 knots. The flight used about 122 US gallons of fuel, producing an estimated 1,170 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 2,897 miles. The Gulfstream G550 is an ultra-long-range jet with a range of 6,750 nautical miles, a ceiling of 51,000 feet, and seating for up to 19 passengers.

The Gulfstream G550 is a GV-SP type, with over 617 in operation worldwide. Its top speed is Mach 0.885, or 488 knots. The aircraft burns about 430 US gallons of fuel per hour.

This was the first tracked landing at a Houston airport for N513MA in the 30 days before this flight. The aircraft's home base is Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport (KOPF). Its usual destinations include San Juan, Las Vegas, Teterboro, Mexico City, Madrid, and Los Angeles. In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited 27 airports in 6 countries and flew about 21,975 nautical miles. Other tracked aircraft at Houston in the 24 hours before this landing included John Travolta's Dassault Falcon 900B, which landed about 4 hours earlier.

In the 30 days before this flight, N513MA completed 30 flights totaling 62.4 hours in the air. Those flights produced an estimated 257,924 kilograms of CO2. The longest leg in that period was from Asunción to Miami on November 3, covering 3,345 nautical miles.

Marc Anthony is a Puerto Rican-American singer, songwriter, and producer, the best-selling tropical salsa artist in history with more than 30 million records sold. He has won three Grammy Awards and seven Latin Grammys, and he is the founder of Magnus Media, a company that handles music, sports management, and content. He is also a minority owner of the Miami Dolphins. The aircraft's brief flight between two Houston airports follows a trip from Las Vegas to Sugar Land on November 12, 2026, covering 1,056 nautical miles in 2 hours and 22 minutes.

The aircraft's most common destinations in the tracked window were Miami with 10 landings, Teterboro with 3, and Boca Raton with 2. Before this flight, the plane had been on the ground for about one hour. Other recent flights by the same owner include a 41-minute hop from Los Alamitos to Las Vegas on November 12.

The flight used about 0.3 percent of the aircraft's total range. The departure airport, Sugar Land Regional Airport, has a longest runway of 8,000 feet at an elevation of 82 feet. William P. Hobby Airport's longest runway is 7,602 feet at an elevation of 46 feet. The distance from the aircraft's home base at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport to William P. Hobby Airport is 827 nautical miles.