Paul Foster's Gulfstream G600 N8PF flies 6 miles from Sugar Land to Hobby

Paul Foster's Gulfstream G600, tail number N8PF, flew from Sugar Land Regional Airport (KSGR) to William P. Hobby Airport (KHOU) in Houston on Tuesday, November 10, 2026. The flight departed at 00:58 UTC and landed at 01:14 UTC, spending 15 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is just 6 nautical miles, or about 7 miles. The aircraft reached a top ground speed of 215 knots and a highest altitude of 1,825 feet.

The 6-mile hop burned an estimated 113 gallons of jet fuel, producing about 1,084 kilograms of CO2. That is roughly the same as driving a car 2,682 miles. N8PF is a 2023 Gulfstream G600, an ultra long range jet built for flights of up to 6,600 nautical miles. It can seat up to 19 passengers and reach a ceiling of 51,000 feet. This was the third tracked landing at a Houston airport for N8PF in the past two weeks. The previous Houston landing was on November 5, 2026, when the aircraft arrived at Hobby from Teterboro. The aircraft's home base is El Paso International Airport (KELP), but its most common destination in the tracked window was Santa Teresa's Doña Ana County International Jetport (KDNA), with six landings. In the 30 days before this flight, N8PF flew 14 flights totaling 23.8 hours in the air. Paul Foster is an El Paso businessman who founded Western Refining and later sold it to Tesoro in 2017. He now runs Franklin Mountain Investments, which holds energy, real estate and sports interests around El Paso, including stakes in the city's minor league baseball and soccer teams. He has also served on the University of Texas System Board of Regents. The FAA lists Franklin Mountain Assets II LLC of El Paso as the owner of N8PF. No public events or meetings tied to Paul Foster or his companies were found near Houston on this date. The flight between two close Houston airports is unusual for an aircraft built for long range. Short hops like this can happen for maintenance, crew repositioning, or passenger convenience. The aircraft's flight history shows it is used primarily for longer trips between Texas and the East Coast. N8PF remains at Hobby Airport as of the time of this report. Its next destination is not yet known.

The aircraft's average ground speed on this short hop was 25 knots. Sugar Land Regional Airport has a longest runway of 8,000 feet at an elevation of 82 feet. William P. Hobby Airport's longest runway is 7,602 feet at an elevation of 46 feet. The distance from the aircraft's home base in El Paso to Hobby is 587 nautical miles.

In the 30 days before this flight, N8PF visited 12 airports and flew about 10,236 nautical miles. The longest leg in that period was from Santa Teresa to Teterboro on November 2, covering 1,670 nautical miles. The aircraft had no time on the ground before this flight, as its previous tracked landing was also on November 10.