Robert Kraft's Gulfstream G800 N616KG flies from Bedford to New York in 54 minutes

Robert Kraft's Gulfstream G800, tail number N616KG, flew from Laurence G Hanscom Field in Bedford, Massachusetts, to LaGuardia Airport in New York on Wednesday, October 28, 2026. The aircraft departed at 13:55 UTC and landed at 14:49 UTC, spending 54 minutes in the air.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 155 nautical miles, or 178 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 172 knots and reached a top speed of 379 knots and a highest altitude of 15,475 feet. The flight burned an estimated 386 US gallons of fuel, producing about 3,705 kilograms of carbon dioxide, roughly the same as driving a car 9,171 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.

The Gulfstream G800 was certified in April 2025 and is the world's longest-range business jet. The aircraft used about 2 percent of its total range on this flight. The departure airport, Laurence G Hanscom Field, has a longest runway of 7,011 feet and an elevation of 133 feet. LaGuardia Airport's longest runway is 7,002 feet with an elevation of 21 feet.

In the 30 days before this flight, all three of Robert Kraft's aircraft made 40 tracked flights, spending 131.9 hours in the air. New York saw one landing by Kraft's aircraft in that window, the last one on October 22, 2026, when the Gulfstream G800 N616KG arrived. The most common destinations for Kraft's fleet in that period were Shannon with 6 landings, Baltimore with 4 landings, and Fort Worth with 3 landings. 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. A Gulfstream G550 belonging to Halliburton landed at New York about 23 hours before this flight.

The aircraft had been on the ground for about six days before this flight. Its previous tracked landing was at Bedford on October 22, 2026. In the same tracking window, another of Kraft's aircraft, a Boeing 767-300ER with tail number N36NE, flew from Tamara to Providence on October 23, covering 1,864 nautical miles in 4 hours and 19 minutes.

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 Bedford at 21:31 UTC on October 22, 2026.