Marc Benioff's Gulfstream G650 N650HA completes 3-minute Austin circuit

Marc Benioff's Gulfstream G650, tail number N650HA, flew a short circuit from Austin Bergstrom International Airport on Thursday, November 12, 2026. The aircraft departed Austin at 00:53 UTC and landed back at the same airport at 00:56 UTC. The entire flight lasted three minutes. This was a brief hop that covered about six nautical miles.

The great-circle distance for the flight was six nautical miles, or about six miles. The aircraft reached a highest altitude of 1,900 feet and a top ground speed of 177 knots. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 23 US gallons of fuel and produced about 220 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 544 miles. The Gulfstream G650 is an ultra long range jet with a range of 7,000 nautical miles and a ceiling of 51,000 feet. It can seat up to 19 passengers.

This was the second tracked landing at Austin for N650HA in the window from June 10 to November 12, 2026. The previous landing at Austin was on September 1, 2026, 71 days before this flight. The aircraft's home base is San Francisco International Airport. Its most common destinations in that window were Dallas Love Field with 16 landings, Los Alamitos with three landings, and Dulles with two landings. In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited nine airports in one country and flew about 6,831 nautical miles.

Marc Benioff is the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Salesforce, with a net worth estimated between $8.5 and $10.8 billion. He is a fourth-generation San Franciscan and acquired TIME Magazine with his wife in 2018 for $190 million. Austin is home to a major Salesforce office, and the company has a significant presence in the city. The aircraft's brief flight from Austin may have been related to a repositioning or maintenance move.

A web search did not turn up any specific public appearance or event tied to Marc Benioff or Salesforce in Austin on this date. Salesforce employs thousands of people in the Austin area, and the company operates a large campus there. The short duration of the flight suggests it was not a trip to a distant destination.

The aircraft returned to Austin after the brief circuit.

The aircraft is a 2019 model registered through TVPX Trustee. Its top speed is Mach 0.925, or 516 knots. The Gulfstream G650 holds more than 110 speed records and was launched in 2005. The plane's estimated fuel burn is 460 US gallons per hour.

Before this flight, the aircraft had just landed at Pflugerville, Texas. The time on the ground before the Austin departure was about zero hours. In the 30 days before this flight, the jet made nine flights, spent 16.2 hours in the air, and produced an estimated 71,739 kilograms of CO2.

The longest leg in that 30-day window was from Teterboro to Dallas on November 6, 2026, covering 1,191 nautical miles. The distance from the aircraft's home base at San Francisco International Airport to Austin is 1,305 nautical miles. Austin's longest runway is 12,250 feet, and its elevation is 542 feet.