Paul Tudor Jones's Bombardier Global 7500 flies from White Plains to LaGuardia in 10 minutes

Paul Tudor Jones's Bombardier Global 7500, tail number N117TF, flew from Westchester County Airport (KHPN) in White Plains to LaGuardia Airport (KLGA) in New York on Tuesday, October 27, 2026. The aircraft departed at 15:29 UTC and landed at 15:39 UTC, spending 10 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 34 nautical miles, or 39 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 197 knots and reached a top speed of 269 knots. Its highest altitude during the flight was 3,600 feet. Celebplanes estimates the flight burned about 77 gallons of fuel and produced about 737 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 1,825 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.

The aircraft's cabin measures 54.4 feet and includes four living zones. The Bombardier Global 7500 has a top speed of Mach 0.925, or 516 knots. A Global 8000 upgrade is available for the model. The plane burns about 450 US gallons of fuel per hour, according to Celebplanes estimates.

Before this flight, N117TF had landed at LaGuardia eight times in the tracking window that began September 10, 2026. The last such landing was on October 20, seven days before this flight. 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 (six landings), and Nashville's John C Tune Airport (two landings). In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited 11 airports in two countries and flew about 19,225 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. Another aircraft tracked at New York in the 24 hours before this landing was a Gulfstream G500 belonging to Saltchuk Resources, which landed about 19 hours earlier.

Before this flight, the aircraft had been on the ground for about seven days. Its previous tracked landing was on October 20 at Oxford. In the 30 days before this flight, the plane completed 22 flights, spent 45.4 hours in the air, and produced about 196,235 kilograms of CO2, per Celebplanes estimates. The departure runway at Westchester County Airport is 6,549 feet long with an elevation of 439 feet. LaGuardia's longest runway is 7,002 feet at an elevation of 21 feet.

Paul Tudor Jones is the founder of Tudor Investment, a hedge fund based in the United States. LaGuardia Airport is a major commercial airport in New York City, serving as a hub for business travel. No news reports tied Paul Tudor Jones or his company to a specific event near LaGuardia 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.