Nestle's Gulfstream G500 N531GD lands at St Louis after 9-hour flight from Chile

Nestle's Gulfstream G500, tail number N531GD, landed at Spirit of St Louis Airport (KSUS) on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, at 02:25 UTC. The aircraft departed from El Bosque Airport (SCBQ) in Santiago, Chile, at 16:53 UTC the same day. The flight took 9 hours and 32 minutes.

The aircraft's average ground speed on this leg was 469 knots. The Gulfstream G500 has a top speed of Mach 0.925, or 515 knots, and is equipped with a Symmetry flight deck that uses scaled-down G650 technology. The departure airport, El Bosque Airport in Santiago, has a longest runway of 6,024 feet at an elevation of 1,844 feet. Spirit of St Louis Airport's longest runway is 7,486 feet, with an elevation of 463 feet.

The great-circle distance between the two airports was 4,473 nautical miles, or 5,148 miles. The aircraft reached a top ground speed of 525 knots and a highest altitude of 47,025 feet. Based on our estimates, the Gulfstream G500 burned about 3,623 US gallons of fuel and emitted about 34,807 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 86,156 miles. The G500 has a range of 5,300 nautical miles, seats up to 19 passengers, and has a service ceiling of 51,000 feet.

This was the 13th landing by Nestle's two Gulfstream G500s at Spirit of St Louis Airport in the 30 days before this flight. The previous landing at the home base was on November 3, 2026, by the other aircraft, N8583A. Nestle's most common destinations in that window were St Louis (12 landings), Dulles (3 landings), and Cincinnati (3 landings). Two other tracked aircraft landed at St Louis in the 24 hours before this flight: Drury Development's Embraer Praetor 600 landed about 8 hours earlier, and Target's Gulfstream G280 landed about 3 hours earlier.

In the 30 days before this flight, the longest leg flown by any of Nestle's two Gulfstream G500s was from St Louis to Lima, Peru, on November 2, 2026, covering 3,142 nautical miles. That flight was also made by N531GD. On November 4, 2026, the other aircraft, N8583A, flew from St Louis to Newark, New Jersey, a distance of 769 nautical miles in 1 hour and 51 minutes.

Nestle is the world's largest food and beverage company, headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, with over 270,000 employees. The aircraft tracked here belong to Nestle Purina PetCare, the St. Louis pet-food subsidiary behind brands such as Purina ONE, Pro Plan, Friskies, Fancy Feast, and Tidy Cats. Spirit of St Louis Airport is the home base that follows from Purina's headquarters. Nestle's European executive travel runs on commercial first class and charter out of Geneva, about 90 kilometers from Vevey.

The flight from Santiago to St Louis used 84 percent of the aircraft's range, making it one of the longer legs tracked for Nestle's fleet. Nestle's two Gulfstream G500s have flown about 18,221 nautical miles in the 30 days before this flight, totaling 38 flights and 46.0 hours in the air.