Russell Wilson's Gulfstream IV SP N330RW flies from Knoxville to Nashville in 29 minutes

Russell Wilson's Gulfstream IV SP, tail number N330RW, flew from McGhee Tyson Airport in Knoxville, Tennessee, to Nashville International Airport on Thursday, October 22, 2026. The aircraft departed at 19:59 UTC and landed at 20:29 UTC, spending 29 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 142 nautical miles, or 164 miles.

The aircraft covered the 142 nautical mile route at an average ground speed of 291 knots, reaching a top ground speed of 462 knots and a highest altitude of 20,000 feet. The flight burned an estimated 186 US gallons of fuel, producing about 1,785 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 4,417 miles. The Gulfstream IV SP is a large jet with a range of 4,166 nautical miles, a top speed of Mach 0.88, a ceiling of 45,000 feet, and seating for typically 14 passengers.

N330RW had no earlier landings at Nashville in the tracked window of the last 30 days. The aircraft's home base is King County International Airport in Seattle. In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft made 11 flights, spending 25.2 hours in the air, with the most common destinations being Teterboro, Las Vegas, and New York. Other tracked aircraft at Nashville in the 24 hours before this landing included Taylor Swift's Dassault Falcon 7X, which landed about 18 hours earlier, and Aflac's Gulfstream G280, which landed about 8 hours earlier.

Russell Wilson played fourteen NFL seasons and made ten Pro Bowls, winning Super Bowl XLVIII in his second season. He played for Seattle, Denver, Pittsburgh, and the Giants, and in 2026 he joined CBS's The NFL Today as a broadcaster. He married Ciara in 2016 and is one of the eleven investor families who took roughly 20% of the Seattle Sounders in 2019.

The flight from Knoxville to Nashville used about 3 percent of the aircraft's range. The aircraft remains registered to West2East 330 LLC in Seattle.

The aircraft's previous tracked landing was at Knoxville/Maryville on the same day, about 7 hours before the Nashville flight. In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited 9 airports in one country and flew about 10,550 nautical miles. The longest leg in that window was from White Plains to Las Vegas on October 16, covering 1,953 nautical miles.

Before the Knoxville to Nashville leg, the aircraft flew from White Plains to Knoxville/Maryville on October 22, a 577 nautical mile trip lasting 1 hour and 24 minutes. Earlier that day, it flew from Teterboro to New York, a 20 nautical mile hop in 16 minutes. The aircraft's home base in Seattle is 1,716 nautical miles from Nashville.

The departure airport in Knoxville has a longest runway of 10,000 feet at an elevation of 981 feet. The arrival airport in Nashville has a longest runway of 11,030 feet at an elevation of 599 feet. The Gulfstream IV SP is a special performance variant of the GIV and burns an estimated 380 US gallons of fuel per hour.