Mark Zuckerberg's Gulfstream G700 flies from Boston to Mountain View in 5 hours 18 minutes

Mark Zuckerberg's Gulfstream G700, tail number N3880, departed Laurence G Hanscom Field in Bedford, Massachusetts, on Sunday, October 18, 2026, at 16:52 UTC and landed at Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View, California, at 22:10 UTC. The flight took 5 hours and 18 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 2,325 nautical miles (2,676 miles).

The aircraft reached a highest altitude of 47,000 feet and a top ground speed of 498 knots, with an average ground speed of 438 knots. The G700 is an ultra-long-range jet with a range of 7,750 nautical miles and a top speed of Mach 0.935. It can seat up to 19 passengers and has a service ceiling of 51,000 feet. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 2,441 US gallons of fuel and produced approximately 23.4 metric tons of CO2, equivalent to driving a car 58,038 miles.

The G700 used about 30 percent of its total range on this trip. The aircraft has the largest cabin of any Gulfstream, with five living areas, and was certified in 2023. It burns an estimated 460 US gallons of fuel per hour.

This was the 13th landing by one of Mark Zuckerberg's aircraft at Moffett Federal Airfield in the tracking window from August 13 to October 18, 2026. The previous landing at Mountain View occurred just one day earlier, on October 18, when the Gulfstream G650ER (N68885) arrived from Los Alamitos. The home base for Mark Zuckerberg's fleet is Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport, located just 7 nautical miles from Moffett. In the 30 days before this flight, the two aircraft visited 10 airports in two countries and flew about 23,245 nautical miles, with the longest leg being a 4,420-nautical-mile trip from Mountain View to Dublin on October 7.

In the tracking window from August 13 to October 18, 2026, the owner's two aircraft made 38 tracked flights. The most common destination was Mountain View, with 12 landings, followed by Monterey with 8 landings and Boston with 2 landings. Before this flight, the G700 had been on the ground for about 2 hours after its previous landing at Boston.

Mark Zuckerberg is the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Meta. A web search did not find any public event or announcement tied to Mark Zuckerberg or Meta in the Bay Area on the day of this flight.

Mark Zuckerberg's net worth is estimated between $220 billion and $263 billion, making him the second to fourth richest person in the world. He holds about 61 percent voting control of Meta through Class B supervoting shares. His properties include a Crescent Park compound in Palo Alto with 11 properties worth about $110 million total, a Kauai ranch expanded to over 2,300 acres with a 5,000-square-foot underground bunker, a Lake Tahoe property worth $59 million, a Miami estate on Indian Creek Island, and a $23 million mansion in Washington, D.C. purchased in March 2025.

This flight followed a short hop from Bedford to Boston earlier the same day, a 28-minute trip covering 14 nautical miles. The G700 had also flown from Mountain View to Boston on October 16, a 4-hour 47-minute journey. The aircraft is operated by Solairus Aviation through the trust A7P Trust Co Inc and wears Meta's blue-and-white livery.