Ron DeSantis's Cessna Citation Latitude flies from Tallahassee to South Bend in 1h 52m

Ron DeSantis's Cessna Citation Latitude, tail number N943FL, flew from Tallahassee International Airport to South Bend International Airport on Saturday, November 7, 2026. The aircraft departed Tallahassee at 13:30 UTC and landed in South Bend at 15:22 UTC. The flight took 1 hour and 52 minutes.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 690 nautical miles, or 794 miles. The aircraft reached a top speed of 444 knots and a maximum altitude of 39,000 feet. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 431 US gallons of fuel and produced roughly 4,137 kg of CO2, about the same as driving a car 10,239 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 aircraft is a 2019 model 680A with Safran Arrius 2B2 turbofans and a maximum takeoff weight of 30,800 lbs. It has a top speed of Mach 0.80, or 446 knots. The cabin typically seats eight passengers, with a flat floor and G5000 avionics. The estimated fuel burn is 230 US gallons per hour.

In the 30 days before this flight, N943FL had no tracked landings at South Bend. The aircraft's home base is Tallahassee International Airport. Its usual destinations include Miami, Orlando, Tampa, and Jacksonville. Recent flights by the same owner include a West Palm Beach to Tallahassee leg on November 6, a Lake Wales to West Palm Beach trip on November 5, and a Tallahassee to Lake Wales flight on November 5. Another tracked aircraft, a Disney Gulfstream G650ER, landed at South Bend about 16 hours before this flight.

The aircraft's most common destinations in the 30 days before this flight were Tallahassee with 18 landings, Pinellas Park with four, and Pensacola with three. The longest leg in that window was Austin to Tallahassee on October 17, covering 689 nautical miles. The aircraft spent about 34 hours on the ground before this flight, following a tracked landing at Tallahassee on November 6.

Ron DeSantis was inaugurated as the 46th Governor of Florida on January 8, 2019, and re-elected in 2022. He is a former U.S. Navy JAG officer and U.S. Representative who launched and withdrew from the 2024 Republican presidential primary before endorsing Donald Trump. Executive transport for the governor is provided by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement through this 2019 Cessna Citation Latitude. The aircraft costs Florida taxpayers about $1.2 million annually in financing. During the 2024 campaign, open-source flight tracking showed the jet was deployed to early primary states, raising questions about whether state resources were used for political travel.

South Bend International Airport has a longest runway of 8,412 feet at an elevation of 799 feet. The flight used 26 percent of the aircraft's range. The average ground speed was 368 knots.

The flight adds another data point to the ongoing tracking of N943FL, which has logged 40 flights in the past 30 days, covering about 8,166 nm.