Neymar's Cessna Citation Sovereign PR-SMK flies from São Paulo to Tijucas in 40 minutes

Neymar's Cessna Citation Sovereign, tail number PR-SMK, flew from Congonhas–Deputado Freitas Nobre Airport (SBSP) in São Paulo to DZ47 Airstrip (SIZD) in Tijucas, Brazil, on Saturday, October 24, 2026. The flight departed at 14:26 UTC and landed at 15:06 UTC, spending 40 minutes in the air.

The departure airport, Congonhas, has a runway 6,365 feet long at an elevation of 2,631 feet. The arrival airstrip in Tijucas sits at an elevation of 7 feet. The Cessna Citation Sovereign burns an estimated 200 US gallons of fuel per hour.

The great-circle distance between the two airports was 237 nautical miles, or 273 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 356 knots and reached a top speed of 446 knots. Its highest altitude during the flight was 28,000 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 133 US gallons, producing roughly 1,282 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 3,173 miles.

This was the first landing at Tijucas by any of Neymar's aircraft in the 30 days before this flight. In that window, the two aircraft completed 39 flights, spending 23.3 hours in the air. The most common destinations were São Bernardo do Campo, with 11 landings, São Roque with 5 landings, and São Paulo with 4 landings. 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.

On the same day, PR-SMK had flown from São Bernardo do Campo to São Paulo in 19 minutes, covering 33 nautical miles. Two days earlier, on October 19, the same aircraft flew from Valença to Guarujá in 39 minutes over 210 nautical miles, and from São Bernardo do Campo to Rio de Janeiro in 22 minutes over 168 nautical miles. Neymar's other aircraft, PS-NJR, a Dassault Falcon 900LX, flew from São Paulo to São Bernardo do Campo on October 19 in 6 minutes over 33 nautical miles.

Neymar is a Brazilian forward who played for Al-Hilal in the Saudi Pro League from August 2023 before returning to Santos on loan in 2025. 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. Tijucas is a coastal city in Santa Catarina state, about 260 nautical miles from Neymar's home base at Guarulhos. No recent news links Neymar directly to a specific event at DZ47 Airstrip.

The aircraft had been on the ground for about one hour since its previous tracked landing at São Paulo on the same day. This flight used only 8 percent of the aircraft's range. 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.