Ron DeSantis's Cessna Citation Latitude flies from West Palm Beach to Tallahassee in 63 minutes

Ron DeSantis's Cessna Citation Latitude, tail number N943FL, flew from President Donald J. Trump International Airport in West Palm Beach to Tallahassee International Airport on Tuesday, November 10, 2026. The aircraft departed at 01:21 UTC and landed at 02:24 UTC, spending 1 hour and 3 minutes in the air. The flight covered a great-circle distance of 323 nautical miles, or 371 miles.

The aircraft reached a top ground speed of 426 knots and a maximum altitude of 28,000 feet. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 241 US gallons of fuel and produced roughly 2,318 kg of CO2, about the same as driving a car 5,738 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.

This flight ended at the aircraft's home base, Tallahassee International Airport. In the 30 days before this flight, N943FL made 17 landings at Tallahassee, with the last one on November 8, two days earlier. The aircraft's usual destinations include Miami, Orlando, Tampa, and Jacksonville. Recent flights by the same owner include a Tallahassee to West Palm Beach leg on November 9, a South Bend to Tallahassee trip on November 8, and a Tallahassee to South Bend flight on November 7.

Ron DeSantis was inaugurated as the 46th Governor of Florida on January 8, 2019, and re-elected in 2022. A former U.S. Navy JAG officer and U.S. Representative, DeSantis launched and withdrew from the 2024 Republican presidential primary before endorsing Donald Trump. The flight departed from President Donald J. Trump International Airport, the airport serving Mar-a-Lago, the private club of former President Donald Trump. On September 9, 2026, a similar flight from the same airport to Tallahassee occurred the night of a Trump fundraiser, as reported by the Palm Beach Post.

If Ron DeSantis was aboard, the timing would place him in West Palm Beach on the evening of November 9. The aircraft spent about three hours on the ground in West Palm Beach before departing, following a tracked landing there on November 9. The flight used 12 percent of the aircraft's range.

The aircraft is a 2019 model 680A registered to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and is used for executive transport for the governor.

The aircraft is a 2019 model 680A with a top speed of Mach 0.80. It typically seats eight passengers and features a flat floor and G5000 avionics. The plane is the best-selling Cessna jet.

In the 30 days before this flight, N943FL made 40 tracked flights totaling 29.9 hours in the air. Those flights covered about 9,440 nautical miles and produced an estimated 66,037 kg of CO2. The longest leg in that period was a 692-nautical-mile trip from South Bend to Tallahassee on November 8.

The aircraft used 23 different airports in one country during the 30 days before this flight. The average ground speed on this trip was 307 knots. The departure field at West Palm Beach has a longest runway of 10,001 feet at an elevation of 19 feet.