Ron DeSantis's Cessna Citation Latitude returns to Tallahassee from West Palm Beach in 65 minutes

Ron DeSantis's Cessna Citation Latitude, tail number N943FL, landed at Tallahassee International Airport at 03:31 UTC on Friday, November 6, 2026. The aircraft departed President Donald J. Trump International Airport in West Palm Beach at 02:26 UTC, making the trip in 1 hour and 5 minutes. The aircraft is registered to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and is used for executive transport.

The departure airport, President Donald J. Trump International Airport, has a longest runway of 10,001 feet and sits at an elevation of 19 feet. The arrival airport, Tallahassee International Airport, has a longest runway of 8,000 feet and an elevation of 81 feet. The flight used about 12 percent of the aircraft's total range.

The flight covered a great-circle distance of 318 nautical miles, or 366 miles, at an average ground speed of 292 knots. The highest altitude seen was 24,000 feet, and the top ground speed reached 417 knots. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 251 US gallons of fuel and produced roughly 2,410 kg of CO2, about the same as driving a car 5,964 miles. The Cessna Citation Latitude is a super midsize jet with a range of 2,700 nm, a ceiling of 45,000 feet, and seating for up to nine passengers.

The Cessna Citation Latitude typically seats eight passengers, with a maximum of nine. It is the best-selling Cessna jet and features a flat floor and G5000 avionics. The aircraft's top speed is Mach 0.80, or 446 knots. Our estimate for fuel burn is 230 US gallons per hour.

This was the 18th landing at Tallahassee in the tracked window of 40 flights since October 11, 2026. The previous landing there was on November 4, one day before this flight. The aircraft's home base is Tallahassee International Airport, and its most common destinations in the window were Tallahassee (17 landings), Pinellas Park (4 landings), and Pensacola (3 landings). Recent flights by the same owner include a Lake Wales to West Palm Beach trip on November 5, a Tallahassee to Lake Wales leg on November 5, and a Lake Wales to Tallahassee flight on November 4.

Ron DeSantis was inaugurated as the 46th Governor of Florida on January 8, 2019, and re-elected in 2022 with a 19-point margin. A former U.S. Navy JAG officer and U.S. Representative from 2013 to 2018, DeSantis launched and withdrew from the 2024 Republican presidential primary before endorsing Donald Trump. The state jet attracted significant scrutiny during the 2024 campaign, with open-source flight tracking revealing that the FDLE Citation Latitude was deployed to New Hampshire, Iowa, and other early primary states simultaneously with DeSantis campaign events, raising transparency questions.

The aircraft spent about 8 hours on the ground in West Palm Beach before this flight. Its previous tracked landing was at West Palm Beach on November 5. In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited 25 airports in one country and flew about 7,879 nautical miles. The longest leg in that period was from Austin to Tallahassee on October 17, covering 689 nautical miles.