Robert Kraft's Gulfstream G800 N616KG flies from Bedford to New York in 40 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 Tuesday, November 3, 2026. The aircraft departed at 23:51 UTC and landed at 00:31 UTC, spending 40 minutes in the air.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 156 nautical miles, or 180 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 234 knots and reached a top speed of 396 knots and a highest altitude of 15,775 feet. The flight burned an estimated 287 US gallons of fuel, producing about 2,754 kilograms of carbon dioxide, roughly the same as driving a car 6,816 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 117.8 hours in the air. New York saw two landings by Kraft's aircraft in that window, the last one on October 28, 2026, when the Gulfstream G800 N616KG arrived. The most common destinations for Kraft's fleet in that period were Boston with 5 landings, Fort Worth with 4 landings, and Providence with 4 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.

The aircraft had been on the ground for about six days before this flight. Its previous tracked landing was at Bedford on October 28, 2026. In the same tracking window, another of Kraft's aircraft, a Boeing 767-300ER with tail number N36NE, flew from Boston to Providence on November 2, covering 43 nautical miles in 17 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 20:29 UTC on October 28, 2026.

The Gulfstream G800 was certified in April 2025 and is the world's longest-range business jet. Its estimated fuel burn is 430 US gallons per hour. This flight used about 2 percent of the aircraft's range.

Laurence G Hanscom Field's longest runway is 7,011 feet at an elevation of 133 feet. LaGuardia Airport's longest runway is 7,002 feet at an elevation of 21 feet.

In the days before this flight, Kraft's Boeing 767-300ER N225NE flew from Boston to Fort Worth on November 2, covering 1,364 nautical miles in 3 hours 35 minutes. The same aircraft also flew from Miami to Boston that day, a 1,097-nautical-mile trip lasting 2 hours 30 minutes.