Michael Jordan's Gulfstream G650ER N236MJ flies from West Palm Beach to Tampa in 38 minutes

Michael Jordan's Gulfstream G650ER, tail number N236MJ, flew from President Donald J. Trump International Airport in West Palm Beach to Tampa International Airport on Thursday, October 22, 2026. The aircraft departed at 13:20 UTC and landed at 13:58 UTC, spending 38 minutes in the air.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 155 nautical miles, or 178 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 246 knots and reached a top speed of 427 knots at a highest altitude of 22,000 feet. Our estimates show the flight burned about 296 US gallons of Jet-A fuel, producing roughly 2,848 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 7,050 miles. The Gulfstream G650ER is an ultra-long-range jet with a maximum range of 7,500 nautical miles, a top speed of Mach 0.925, a ceiling of 51,000 feet, and seating for up to 19 passengers.

This flight ended at an airport where N236MJ had no tracked landings in our 30-day window. The aircraft's home base is President Donald J. Trump International Airport, where it has landed 10 times in our tracking window. In the 30 days before this flight, N236MJ visited six airports in four countries, flying about 13,559 nautical miles. The longest leg in that period was from Lisbon to Las Vegas on September 30, covering 4,728 nautical miles in 10 hours 46 minutes. Another tracked aircraft, Troy Taylor's Gulfstream G550, landed at Tampa about 19 hours before this flight.

Michael Jordan is a six-time NBA champion, five-time MVP, and team owner with a net worth over $1 billion. He co-owns 23XI Racing, which won the 2026 Daytona 500. His primary residence is in Jupiter, Florida, where he owns two estates inside The Bear's Club. The Gulfstream G650ER, serial number 6579, is one of the last produced, and its tail number carries symbolic meaning: 23 for his jersey, 6 for his championships, and MJ for his initials. The aircraft features a custom silver-and-black elephant-print livery inspired by the Air Jordan 3, with a paint job estimated to cost about $500,000.

The flight marks a short hop from Jordan's home base to Tampa, using only 2 percent of the aircraft's maximum range. The departure airport in West Palm Beach has a runway 10,001 feet long at an elevation of 19 feet. The arrival airport in Tampa has a runway 11,002 feet long at an elevation of 26 feet.

Before this flight, the aircraft had been on the ground for about three days. Its previous tracked landing was on October 19 at West Palm Beach, arriving from George Town, a 449-nautical-mile flight that took 1 hour 20 minutes. That trip followed a 1-hour-23-minute leg from West Palm Beach to George Town on October 15.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft completed eight tracked flights totaling 31.1 hours in the air. Those flights produced an estimated 140,233 kilograms of CO2. The most common destinations in that window were West Palm Beach with 10 landings and Lisbon with two landings.