Shaquille O'Neal's Challenger 605 flies Driggs to Teterboro in 3 hours 44 minutes

Shaquille O'Neal's Bombardier Challenger 605, tail N3250N, flew from Driggs/Reed Memorial Airport in Idaho to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey on Wednesday, November 11, 2026. The aircraft departed at 22:24 UTC and landed at 02:07 UTC on November 12, spending 3 hours and 44 minutes in the air. The flight covered a great-circle distance of 1,645 nautical miles.

The aircraft reached a highest altitude of 41,025 feet and a top ground speed of 505 knots, with an average ground speed of 442 knots. Celebplanes estimates the flight burned about 1,043 US gallons of fuel, producing about 10,022 kilograms of CO2, equivalent to driving a car 24,806 miles. The Challenger 605 has a range of 3,900 nautical miles, a ceiling of 41,000 feet, and seats up to 12 passengers. The flight used 42 percent of the aircraft's range.

The aircraft is a Bombardier Challenger 605, an evolution of the Challenger 604 with Rockwell Collins avionics. Its top speed is Mach 0.82, or 459 knots. The departure airport, Driggs/Reed Memorial, has a longest runway of 7,301 feet and sits at an elevation of 6,229 feet.

In the 30 days before this flight, the owner's aircraft had landed at Teterboro twice; the last one was on October 28, 2026, 14 days before this flight. The home base for both of Shaquille O'Neal's aircraft is Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, which is 657 nautical miles from Teterboro. The most common destinations in that window were Atlanta, Driggs, and Orlando. Other tracked aircraft at Teterboro in the 24 hours before this landing included a Gulfstream G600 linked to Antonio Gracias, a Gulfstream G650ER linked to the Lemann Family, a Gulfstream G650ER linked to IBM, a Bombardier Global 7500 linked to Dwayne Johnson, a Gulfstream G800 linked to Lachlan Murdoch, and a Gulfstream G280 linked to Target.

The longest leg was 4,290 nautical miles, from Olbia, Italy, to Atlanta on October 16, 2026, flown by the Bombardier Global 6000, tail N626JJ. That aircraft is also on file for Shaquille O'Neal.

Shaquille O'Neal is a 4-time NBA champion, Hall-of-Famer, and Inside the NBA broadcaster on TNT. He also holds significant investments in Krispy Kreme and Authentic Brands Group. A web search found no scheduled public appearance, board meeting, or other event tied to Shaquille O'Neal or his organizations for the arrival date in the New York area.

On the day of this flight, N3250N had flown from San Luis Obispo to Driggs, a 648-nautical-mile leg lasting 1 hour 33 minutes. Two days earlier, on November 9, the owner's other aircraft, N626JJ, flew from Orlando to Fort Lauderdale, covering 161 nautical miles in 43 minutes.

The aircraft had been on the ground for about 2 hours since its previous tracked landing at Driggs on the same day. The arrival airport, Teterboro, has a longest runway of 6,997 feet.