Shell's Dassault Falcon 7X VQ-BXH flies 4,741 nm from Germany to Bangkok

Shell's Dassault Falcon 7X, tail number VQ-BXH, landed at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, on Thursday, November 12, 2026, at 02:22 UTC. The flight departed Hetzleser Berg Airfield in Neunkirchen am Brand, Germany, on Wednesday, November 11, at 16:24 UTC. The trip took 9 hours and 58 minutes.

The Falcon 7X averaged 476 knots ground speed on the flight. The departure field at Hetzleser Berg Airfield sits at an elevation of 1,765 feet. Bangkok's Don Mueang International Airport has a longest runway of 12,139 feet and an elevation of 9 feet.

The great-circle distance between the two airports was 4,741 nautical miles, or 5,456 miles. That is about 80 percent of the aircraft's maximum range of 5,950 nautical miles. The Falcon 7X reached a top speed of 548 knots and a highest altitude of 41,025 feet. Celebplanes estimates the flight burned about 2,789 US gallons of fuel, producing about 26,790 kilograms of CO2. That is roughly the same as driving a car 66,313 miles. The Falcon 7X is an ultra-long-range trijet that seats up to 16 passengers and has a service ceiling of 51,000 feet.

This was Shell's second tracked landing at Bangkok in the past 59 days. The previous one was on September 13, 2026, also by VQ-BXH. Over the 30 days before this flight, Shell's two aircraft made 13 flights totaling 31.8 hours in the air. Their most common destinations in that window were Rotterdam, Luton, and Farnborough. The Falcon 7X had been on the ground for only about two hours before this trip, following a short 14-minute hop from RAF Mildenhall to Luton.

Shell is a global energy and petrochemicals major based in the UK and Netherlands, and one of the largest oil companies in the world. Its corporate aviation arm, Shell Aircraft International, operates two Dassault Falcons registered in the Cayman Islands. Bangkok is a major hub for energy industry activity in Southeast Asia, though no specific Shell event was tied to this flight in public sources.

Shell's two aircraft made 37 tracked flights from September 7 to November 11, 2026. The most common destinations in that period were Rotterdam with 11 landings, Luton with 4, and Farnborough with 4. The longest leg in those 30 days was a Luton to Abu Dhabi flight on October 31, covering 2,968 nautical miles, flown by the Falcon 8X.

Another tracked aircraft, a Bombardier Global 7500 linked to Mike Cannon-Brookes, landed at Bangkok about 14 hours earlier.

Recent flights by Shell's Falcon 8X include a 22-minute hop from Upminster to Rotterdam on November 5, and a 5-hour 44-minute trip from Al Damaikhi to Ipswich on November 4. On October 31, the 8X flew from Luton to Abu Dhabi in 6 hours 43 minutes, then from Rotterdam to Luton in 38 minutes.

This flight added to Shell's tracked total of 59 flights for VQ-BXH, which has logged 181 hours and produced an estimated 486.2 metric tons of CO2 over its lifetime.