Gulfstream G800 N616KG flies from LaGuardia to Boston in 37 minutes

Robert Kraft's Gulfstream G800, tail number N616KG, flew from LaGuardia Airport in New York to Boston Logan International Airport on Thursday, October 22, 2026. The aircraft departed at 19:45 UTC and landed at 20:22 UTC, spending 37 minutes in the air. This was the second leg of the day for N616KG, which had earlier flown from Laurence G Hanscom Field in Bedford, Massachusetts, to LaGuardia.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 161 nautical miles, or 185 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 262 knots and reached a top speed of 416 knots and a highest altitude of 15,025 feet. The flight burned an estimated 264 US gallons of fuel, producing about 2,532 kilograms of carbon dioxide, roughly the same as driving a car 6,268 miles. The Gulfstream G800 is an ultra long range jet with a range of 8,200 nautical miles, a top speed of Mach 0.935, a ceiling of 51,000 feet, and seating for up to 19 passengers.

In the 30 days before this flight, all three of Robert Kraft's aircraft made 40 tracked flights, spending 127.0 hours in the air. Boston Logan saw two landings by Kraft's aircraft in that window, the last one on October 4, 2026, when the Boeing 767-300ER N36NE arrived. The most common destinations for Kraft's fleet in that period were Shannon, Baltimore, and Fort Worth. The longest leg was a 3,481 nm flight from Baltimore to Ramstein-Miesenbach on October 16, 2026, flown by the Boeing 767-300ER N225NE.

Robert Kraft is the owner of the New England Patriots, an NFL team based in the Boston area. A search for public events tied to Kraft or the Patriots near the arrival date did not yield a specific reason for the flight. Kraft's Gulfstream G800 is one of three aircraft on file for him, alongside two Boeing 767-300ERs, N36NE and N225NE.

The aircraft's most recent tracked flight before this one ended at LaGuardia at 2:29 PM UTC on the same day. N616KG is now on the ground at Boston Logan.

The Gulfstream G800 is the world's longest-range business jet, certified in April 2025. The flight used about 2 percent of the aircraft's range. LaGuardia Airport has a longest runway of 7,002 feet at an elevation of 21 feet. Boston Logan International Airport has a longest runway of 10,083 feet at an elevation of 20 feet.

The aircraft had been on the ground for about 5 hours before this flight, after its previous tracked landing in New York. In the 30-day window, the most common destinations for Kraft's fleet were Shannon with 6 landings, Baltimore with 4 landings, and Fort Worth with 3 landings.

Recent flights by the same owner include a trip from Providence to Gary on October 21, 2026, covering 715 nautical miles in 1 hour 59 minutes. Another flight on October 19 went from Fort Worth to Providence, 1,335 nautical miles in 3 hours 9 minutes. On October 17, a flight from Baltimore to Fort Worth covered 1,066 nautical miles in 2 hours 53 minutes.