Neymar's Cessna Citation Sovereign PR-SMK flies from São Bernardo do Campo to Rio de Janeiro

Neymar's Cessna Citation Sovereign, tail number PR-SMK, flew from Ecovias Imigrantes Heliport (SIEE) in São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, to Santa Cruz Air Force Base (SBSC) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Monday, October 19, 2026. The flight departed at 16:05 UTC and landed at 16:26 UTC, spending 22 minutes in the air.

The great-circle distance between the two airports was 168 nautical miles, or 194 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 468 knots and reached a top speed of 536 knots. Its highest altitude during the flight was 27,050 feet. The Cessna Citation Sovereign is a super midsize jet with a range of 3,010 nautical miles and a top speed of Mach 0.80. It typically seats 9 to 12 passengers and has a service ceiling of 47,000 feet. Our estimate for fuel burned on this leg is about 72 US gallons, producing roughly 691 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 1,711 miles.

In the 30 days before this flight, Neymar's two aircraft completed 39 flights, spending 26.8 hours in the air. The most common destination in that window was São Bernardo do Campo, with 12 landings. Rio de Janeiro saw three landings in that period, all by the Dassault Falcon 900LX PS-NJR. The last landing at Santa Cruz Air Force Base by any of Neymar's aircraft before this flight was on August 13, 2026, also by PR-SMK. Neymar's home base is São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport (SBGR). His usual destinations include Congonhas Airport in São Paulo, King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, London Heathrow, Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport, Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport, and Miami International Airport.

He returned to Santos on loan in 2025. Santa Cruz Air Force Base is a military airfield in Rio de Janeiro, a city where Neymar has personal and professional ties. According to a report by G1, Neymar landed in São Roque, São Paulo, on January 31, 2025, after a 16-hour flight from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to finalize his return to Santos. That flight was a chartered Gulfstream G700, as his two personal jets were in maintenance. No recent news links Neymar directly to a specific event at Santa Cruz Air Force Base.

This flight used only 6 percent of the aircraft's range. The aircraft had been on the ground for about 18 days since its previous tracked landing on October 1, 2026, at Campinas.

The departure airport, Ecovias Imigrantes Heliport, sits at an elevation of 2,526 feet. Santa Cruz Air Force Base has a longest runway of 8,986 feet and an elevation of 10 feet. The distance from Neymar's home base at São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport to Santa Cruz is 155 nautical miles.

In the 30 days before this flight, the longest leg flown by any of Neymar's aircraft was 1,191 nautical miles from São Bernardo do Campo to Recife on September 25, 2026, by PR-SMK. The Cessna Citation Sovereign burns an estimated 200 US gallons of fuel per hour.

On the same day as this flight, PS-NJR, the Dassault Falcon 900LX, flew from São Paulo to São Bernardo do Campo in 6 minutes over 33 nautical miles. The day before, PS-NJR flew from São Paulo to São Paulo in 33 minutes over 69 nautical miles.