Steve Wynn's Gulfstream G700 flies from Van Nuys to Las Vegas in 41 minutes

Steve Wynn's Gulfstream G700, tail number N88WR, departed Van Nuys Airport at 19:28 UTC on Monday, November 2, 2026, and landed at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas at 20:08 UTC. The flight took 41 minutes. The aircraft climbed to 25,000 feet and reached a top ground speed of 512 knots.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 198 nautical miles, or 228 miles. The flight burned an estimated 306 gallons of fuel and produced about 2.9 metric tons of carbon dioxide. That is roughly the same as driving a car 7,273 miles. The Gulfstream G700 is an ultra long range jet with a range of 7,750 nautical miles, a top speed of Mach 0.935, and a ceiling of 51,000 feet. It typically seats 12 passengers and has five living areas.

This was the 20th tracked landing at Las Vegas in the tracking window. The previous one was on November 2, less than one day earlier. The aircraft is based at President Donald J. Trump International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida. Its most common destinations in the recent tracking window were Las Vegas, with 19 landings; Van Nuys, with 5 landings; and Fairfield, with 3 landings. Before this flight, the aircraft had been on the ground for about 0 hours after a previous tracked landing at Van Nuys on November 2. In the 24 hours before this landing, other tracked aircraft at Las Vegas included a Dassault Falcon 7X linked to Jon Hemingway, which landed about 21 hours earlier, and an Embraer Legacy 500 linked to MGM Resorts, which landed about 17 hours earlier.

The aircraft's average ground speed on this flight was 292 knots. Van Nuys Airport has a longest runway of 8,001 feet at an elevation of 802 feet. Harry Reid International Airport's longest runway is 14,835 feet at an elevation of 2,181 feet. The distance from the aircraft's home base at President Donald J. Trump International Airport in West Palm Beach to Las Vegas is 1,872 nautical miles.

Steve Wynn is a former casino and resort developer who built the Mirage, Bellagio, Wynn Las Vegas, and Encore. He resigned as Wynn Resorts chairman and CEO in 2018 amid sexual misconduct allegations he denies and sold his entire $2.1 billion stake. He settled with the Nevada Gaming Control Board in 2023, formally ending his Nevada gaming career. He homesteaded in Palm Beach in 2019 with a $42 million home plus a $12.9 million West Palm Beach property across Lake Worth Lagoon from Mar-a-Lago. Las Vegas is a recurring destination for Steve Wynn, who maintains business and personal ties there, including art collection, real estate, and personal travel, as noted by celebplanes.com.

The flight continues a pattern of short hops between Southern California and Las Vegas. In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft made 21 flights totaling 28.4 hours in the air. The flight used about 3 percent of the aircraft's total range.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft used nine airports in one country and flew about 10,047 nautical miles. The longest leg in that period was from Teterboro to Las Vegas on October 30, covering 1,935 nautical miles. The Gulfstream G700 has the largest cabin in the Gulfstream line, with five living areas, and was certified in 2023. The estimated fuel burn for this aircraft is 450 US gallons per hour.