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Silvestre Dangond's Hawker 800XP flies from Miami to Tampa in 37 minutes
The aircraft, tail number N812SD, landed at Tampa International Airport on October 27 after a short hop from Opa Locka.
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Silvestre Dangond
Silvestre Dangond's Hawker 800XP, tail number N812SD, flew from Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport to Tampa International Airport on Tuesday, October 27, 2026. The aircraft departed Miami at 12:52 UTC and landed in Tampa at 13:29 UTC. The flight took 37 minutes.
The great-circle distance between the two airports is 178 nautical miles, or 205 miles. The aircraft averaged 286 knots ground speed and reached a top speed of 411 knots. Its highest altitude was 22,000 feet. Based on Celebplanes estimates, the flight burned about 155 US gallons of fuel and produced about 1,492 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 3,692 miles. The Hawker 800XP is a midsize business jet with a typical range of about 2,500 nautical miles, seating for up to eight passengers, and a maximum certified altitude of 41,000 feet.
This was the first tracked landing by this aircraft at Tampa in the 30-day window ending October 25. The aircraft's most common destination in that period was Miami, with four landings. Before this flight, the aircraft had been on the ground for about 42 hours after its previous tracked landing at Miami on October 25. In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited three airports in two countries and flew about 1,015 nautical miles. Other tracked aircraft that landed at Tampa in the 24 hours before this flight included Tom Cruise's HondaJet HA-420, Bob Basham's Dassault Falcon 900EX, and Troy Taylor's Gulfstream G550.
A web search did not find any scheduled public appearance, event, or business reason tied to Silvestre Dangond in the Tampa area on or around October 27. The flight may have been for personal or logistical reasons not publicly reported.
The aircraft's brief hop from Miami to Tampa adds a short domestic leg to a travel pattern that has included international trips to Jamaica and Colombia in recent months. The flight is one entry in the complete tracking history of tail number N812SD.
The aircraft's departure airport, Miami-Opa Locka Executive, has a longest runway of 8,002 feet and sits at an elevation of 8 feet. Tampa International Airport's longest runway is 11,002 feet, with an elevation of 26 feet.
The longest leg in that period was Miami to Kingston on October 23, covering 535 nautical miles. Those 30 days included two flights totaling 2.7 hours in the air, with an estimated 6,432 kilograms of CO2 produced.
Recent flights by the same owner include a trip from Boscobel to Miami on October 25, lasting 1 hour 19 minutes over 479 nautical miles, and a Miami-to-Kingston flight on October 23 of 1 hour 22 minutes over 535 nautical miles. The aircraft's fuel burn is estimated at 250 US gallons per hour.
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