Mukesh Ambani's Bombardier Global 7500 flies 32 nm from White Plains to Newark

Mukesh Ambani's Bombardier Global 7500, tail number VT-ASR, flew from Westchester County Airport in White Plains to Newark Liberty International Airport on Thursday, November 12, 2026. The aircraft departed at 19:40 UTC and landed at 20:08 UTC, spending 28 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance was 32 nautical miles, or 36 miles.

The flight covered a short 32 nm at an average ground speed of 68 knots. The highest altitude reached was 6,450 feet, and the top ground speed was 292 knots. The aircraft burned an estimated 210 US gallons of fuel, producing about 2,016 kg of CO2, equivalent to driving a car 4,990 miles. The Global 7500 has a range of 7,700 nm, a ceiling of 51,000 feet, and typically seats 13 passengers, with a maximum of 19.

VT-ASR last landed at Newark on November 12, 2026, 0 days before this flight, when the other aircraft on file for this owner, a Boeing 737 MAX 9 BBJ with tail VT-AKV, landed there. Mukesh Ambani's home base is Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai, 6,774 nm from Newark. His usual destinations include Tokyo, Bangkok, Dubai, Muscat, Malé, and Jeddah. In the 30 days before this flight, his two aircraft made 18 flights, spending 72.1 hours in the air and covering about 27,763 nm. American Express landed a Gulfstream G600 at Newark about 21 hours before this flight.

Mukesh Ambani is the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, India's largest company by revenue at roughly $125 billion. He lives at Antilia in Mumbai, a 27-storey private skyscraper. No public events or company meetings tied to Mukesh Ambani were reported in the Newark area on this date. The flight was a brief repositioning between two New York-area airports.

The aircraft had been on the ground for about three days before this flight, following a previous tracked landing in New York on November 9, 2026. In the 30 days before this flight, the owner's two aircraft made 33 tracked flights, with the most common destinations being Mumbai with 10 landings, Vienna with 4 landings, and Newark with 3 landings.

The aircraft is registered to Reliance Commercial Dealers Ltd, the same Reliance subsidiary that holds the owner's other plane, a Boeing 737 MAX 9 BBJ with tail number VT-AKV. That plane is India's first MAX 9 BBJ and arrived in August 2024 with customization costing more than $120 million.

The longest leg in that period was a Newark-to-Vienna flight on November 1, 2026, covering 3,685 nautical miles, flown by the Boeing 737 MAX 9 BBJ. Recent flights by the same owner include a Vienna-to-New York trip on November 9, 2026, covering 3,656 nautical miles in 8 hours 32 minutes, flown by this same Global 7500.