Tommy Hilfiger's Falcon 900EX returns to St Louis after 76 days on the ground

Tommy Hilfiger's Dassault Falcon 900EX, registered N818TH, departed St Louis Regional Airport (KALN) in Alton, Illinois, on Saturday, October 31, 2026, at 15:42 UTC. The aircraft landed back at the same airport at 16:49 UTC, after a flight that lasted 1 hour 7 minutes. The great-circle distance between departure and arrival was just 3 nautical miles, or about 3 miles.

The aircraft climbed to a maximum altitude of 41,025 feet and reached a top ground speed of 475 knots. Based on the flight time, the Falcon 900EX burned an estimated 358 US gallons of Jet-A fuel, producing about 3,442 kilograms of CO2, or 3.4 metric tons. That is roughly the same as driving a car 8,520 miles. The Falcon 900EX is a long-range business jet with a range of 4,500 nautical miles, a top speed of Mach 0.87, and a service ceiling of 51,000 feet. It typically seats 12 to 16 passengers.

This was the second tracked landing by N818TH at St Louis Regional Airport in the past 76 days. The previous landing at KALN was on August 16, 2026, when the aircraft arrived from West Palm Beach (KPBI). Tommy Hilfiger's home base is President Donald J. Trump International Airport (KDJT) in West Palm Beach, Florida. Among the aircraft's 32 tracked flights between May and August 2026, the most common destinations were West Palm Beach (9 landings), Teterboro (4 landings), and Bangor (3 landings).

Tommy Hilfiger is a fashion designer who founded the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation in 1985 and sold it to PVH in 2010 for $3 billion. He is known for his preppy-American sportswear brand and lives in Palm Beach, with additional homes in New York City and on the island of Mustique. The St Louis area is not among his usual destinations on file, which include Teterboro, New York, Los Angeles, Aspen, London, and Nice. No recent public appearances or business events tied to Tommy Hilfiger or his company were found in the St Louis area.

The aircraft's flight history shows that before this short local flight, N818TH had completed a transatlantic trip from Nice, France, to Bangor, Maine, on August 15, 2026, followed by a flight to West Palm Beach and then to St Louis on August 16. The aircraft then remained at St Louis until this brief circuit on October 31. The flight appears to have been a local test or repositioning hop.

The aircraft's average ground speed during the circuit was 3 knots. St Louis Regional Airport's longest runway is 8,099 feet, with an elevation of 544 feet. The airport is 887 nautical miles from Tommy Hilfiger's home base at President Donald J. Trump International Airport in West Palm Beach.

This movement adds one more flight to the 33 total flights tracked for Tommy Hilfiger's aircraft on Celebplanes, which have accumulated 84 flight hours and an estimated 259.7 metric tons of CO2 emissions.