Ron DeSantis's Cessna Citation Latitude flies Tallahassee to Dulles in 1 hour 38 minutes

Ron DeSantis's Cessna Citation Latitude, tail number N943FL, flew from Tallahassee International Airport to Washington Dulles International Airport on Tuesday, November 10, 2026. The aircraft departed at 22:09 UTC and landed at 23:47 UTC, spending 1 hour and 38 minutes in the air. The flight covered a great-circle distance of 630 nautical miles, or 725 miles.

The aircraft reached a top ground speed of 505 knots and a maximum altitude of 39,000 feet. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 374 US gallons of fuel and produced roughly 3,591 kg of CO2, about the same as driving a car 8,889 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 powered by Safran Arrius 2B2 turbofans. It has a maximum takeoff weight of 30,800 lbs and is equipped with G5000 avionics. The jet typically seats eight passengers, with a maximum of nine. It is the best-selling Cessna jet and features a flat floor.

This was the first tracked landing at Dulles for N943FL in the 30 days before this flight. The aircraft's home base is Tallahassee International Airport, and its most common destinations in that window were Tallahassee (18 landings), West Palm Beach (3 landings), and Pinellas Park (3 landings). Recent flights by the same owner include a West Palm Beach to Tallahassee leg on November 10, a Tallahassee to West Palm Beach trip on November 9, and a South Bend to Tallahassee flight on November 8. Other tracked aircraft at Dulles in the 24 hours before this landing included a Northrop Grumman Gulfstream G550, a Len Blavatnik Gulfstream G650, a Nassef Sawiris Gulfstream G700, a Michael Saylor Bombardier Global Express, a Tony Tan Caktiong Gulfstream G500, and a Lady Gaga Gulfstream V.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft flew 40 flights totaling 30.3 hours in the air. It visited 23 airports and covered about 9,575 nm. The longest leg in that period was a 692 nm flight from South Bend to Tallahassee on November 8. The aircraft had been on the ground for about 20 hours before departing for Dulles.

Ron DeSantis was inaugurated as the 46th Governor of Florida on January 8, 2019, and re-elected in 2022. He launched and withdrew from the 2024 Republican presidential primary before endorsing Donald Trump. The state-owned Cessna Citation Latitude, financed at approximately $1.2 million annually, faced scrutiny during the 2024 campaign when flight tracking showed it in early primary states, prompting ethics complaints and FOIA requests for flight logs. The arrival at Washington Dulles comes as no public event has been announced at the airport for the governor.

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 flight used 23 percent of the aircraft's range.