Paul Tudor Jones's Bombardier Global 7500 flies from White Plains to Oxford in 13 minutes

Paul Tudor Jones's Bombardier Global 7500, tail number N117TF, flew from Westchester County Airport (KHPN) in White Plains to Waterbury Oxford Airport (KOXC) on Tuesday, October 20, 2026. The aircraft departed at 15:56 UTC and landed at 16:08 UTC, spending 13 minutes in the air. This was a short hop between two airports in the northeastern United States.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 37 nautical miles, or 43 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 177 knots and reached a top speed of 259 knots. Its highest altitude during the flight was 4,750 feet. Celebplanes estimates the flight burned about 95 gallons of fuel and produced about 909 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 2,250 miles. The Bombardier Global 7500 is an ultra long range jet with a range of 7,700 nautical miles, a ceiling of 51,000 feet, and seating for up to 19 passengers.

Waterbury Oxford Airport's longest runway is 5,800 feet, and its elevation is 726 feet. By contrast, Westchester County Airport's longest runway is 6,549 feet, with an elevation of 439 feet. The Bombardier Global 7500 has a top speed of Mach 0.925, or 516 knots. It features four living zones and a 54.4-foot cabin. A Global 8000 upgrade is available for the model.

Before this flight, N117TF had not landed at Waterbury Oxford Airport in the tracking window that began September 6, 2026. The aircraft's most common destinations in that period were New York's LaGuardia Airport (eight landings), West Palm Beach's President Donald J. Trump International Airport (seven landings), and Nashville's John C Tune Airport (two landings). The previous tracked landing was at New York earlier on October 20. In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited 12 airports in two countries and flew about 28,552 nautical miles. The longest leg in that period was from Nice, Alpes-Maritimes to West Palm Beach on September 27, covering 4,209 nautical miles.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft completed 29 flights, spending 65.4 hours in the air. Celebplanes estimates those flights produced about 282,843 kilograms of CO2. The aircraft burns an estimated 450 US gallons of fuel per hour. Recent flights by the same owner included a trip from Nashville to New York on October 20, covering 683 nautical miles in 1 hour 48 minutes, and a flight from White Plains to Nashville on October 19, covering 685 nautical miles in 1 hour 41 minutes.

Paul Tudor Jones is the founder of Tudor Investment, a hedge fund based in the United States. Waterbury Oxford Airport is located in Connecticut, about 90 miles northeast of New York City. The airport serves as a general aviation field and is sometimes used by private aircraft traveling to or from the New York area. No news reports tied Paul Tudor Jones or his company to a specific event near Oxford on this date.

The flight was a brief repositioning between two airports in the Northeast. It followed a pattern of short trips in the region over the previous days.