Tom Cruise's HondaJet N77VA flies from Atlanta Speedway to Tampa in 1 hour 4 minutes

Tom Cruise's HondaJet HA-420, tail number N77VA, flew from Atlanta Speedway Airport (KHMP) in Hampton, Georgia, to Tampa International Airport (KTPA) on Wednesday, November 11, 2026. The aircraft departed at 16:27 UTC and landed at 17:31 UTC, spending 1 hour and 4 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 343 nautical miles, or 395 miles.

The departure airport, Atlanta Speedway Airport, has a longest runway of 5,509 feet and sits at an elevation of 882 feet. Tampa International Airport's longest runway is 11,002 feet, with an elevation of 26 feet. It typically seats four passengers, up to five.

The flight covered 28 percent of the aircraft's 1,223 nautical mile range. The HondaJet reached a top ground speed of 480 knots and a highest altitude of 39,000 feet, with an average ground speed of 322 knots. Celebplanes estimates the flight burned about 85 US gallons of fuel, producing roughly 820 kilograms of CO2, equivalent to driving a car 2,029 miles. The HondaJet HA-420 is a light jet that typically seats four to five passengers, has a top speed of Mach 0.72, and a service ceiling of 43,000 feet.

This is the 14th tracked landing by N77VA at Tampa International Airport in the 40-flight window from August 29 to November 11, 2026. The previous landing at Tampa was on November 9, 3 days before this flight. Tom Cruise's home base is Clearwater Air Park (KCLW), located 12 nautical miles from the arrival airport. His usual destinations include Fort Lauderdale Executive, Van Nuys, Naples Municipal, President Donald J. Trump International Airport in West Palm Beach, Teterboro, and Farnborough. In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited 12 airports and flew about 8,374 nautical miles. Other tracked aircraft that landed at Tampa in the 24 hours before this landing include a Dassault Falcon 2000 operated by Andretti Autosport, which landed about 19 hours earlier, and a Gulfstream G550 operated by Marc Anthony, which landed about 6 hours earlier.

In the 40-flight window, the most common destinations for N77VA were Tampa with 13 landings, Ontario County IDA with 5 landings, and West Palm Beach with 2 landings. Two days before this flight, on November 8, the aircraft flew from Coral Gables to Tampa in 42 minutes covering 180 nautical miles, and earlier that day from Tampa to Coral Gables in 46 minutes covering 178 nautical miles.

Tom Cruise is an actor, producer, and aviation enthusiast with a net worth of about $600 million and a global box office of more than $11.5 billion. He is a licensed pilot and a devout Scientologist since 1986. His primary base is a two-storey penthouse in The SkyView in Clearwater, Florida, purchased in 2017, which includes a private entrance, a nine-car garage, and a flight simulator room. The aircraft is operated via Nexgen Flight Solutions and is used primarily for shorter hops around Florida and the East Coast, making this return to Tampa a routine movement in a busy schedule.

This flight is one entry in Tom Cruise's complete flight history for N77VA, which includes 16 flights in the 30 days before this landing, totaling 26.7 hours in the air. The longest leg in that window was from Ontario County IDA to Tampa on November 3, covering 932 nautical miles.