Troy Taylor's Gulfstream G550 N10274 flies from West Palm Beach to Miami

Troy Taylor's Gulfstream G550, tail number N10274, flew from President Donald J. Trump International Airport in West Palm Beach to Miami International Airport on Tuesday, November 10, 2026. The aircraft departed at 18:53 UTC and landed at 19:16 UTC, spending just 23 minutes in the air. The flight covered a great-circle distance of 53 nautical miles, or 61 miles, at an average ground speed of 141 knots. The highest altitude recorded was 8,850 feet, and the top ground speed reached 287 knots.

The short trip used only 1 percent of the aircraft's maximum range of 6,750 nautical miles. The Gulfstream G550 is an ultra long range jet that can carry up to 19 passengers and fly at a top speed of Mach 0.885. It has a service ceiling of 51,000 feet. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 155 gallons of fuel and produced roughly 1,485 kilograms of carbon dioxide, about the same as driving a car 3,675 miles.

The departure airport, President Donald J. Trump International Airport, has a longest runway of 10,001 feet and sits at an elevation of 19 feet. Miami International Airport's longest runway is 13,016 feet, with an elevation of 8 feet. The distance from Tampa International Airport, the home base on file, to Miami International Airport is 178 nautical miles.

This was the first landing at Miami International Airport for N10274 in the tracked window of 19 flights from October 19 to November 9. The aircraft's home base is Tampa International Airport. In the 30 days before this flight, the jet visited 6 airports and flew about 12,648 nautical miles. The most common destinations in that window were Houston, with 9 landings, and Tampa, with 8 landings. Another Gulfstream G550, tracked to Halliburton, landed at Miami less than an hour before N10274.

Troy Taylor is the founder, chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Beverages Florida. The Tampa company bottles and sells Coca-Cola drinks across most of Florida, including Miami, Orlando and Jacksonville. It is one of the largest privately owned Coca-Cola bottlers in the U.S. and the only one owned by a Black American. He also runs Cardinal System Holdings, its parent, and sits on the board of Cox Enterprises. Miami is a key market for his company's operations, and the city is a regular destination for business travel in the region.

In the days before this flight, the same aircraft flew from Tampa to Houston on November 5, covering 681 nautical miles in 2 hours and 10 minutes. On November 6, it again flew from Tampa to Houston, this time 679 nautical miles in 2 hours and 1 minute. The Gulfstream G550 is a GV-SP type, with over 617 in operation worldwide. The estimated fuel burn for this aircraft is 410 US gallons per hour.

If Troy Taylor was aboard, the short flight from West Palm Beach to Miami could have been for a business meeting or a visit to company facilities in the area. The aircraft had spent about 20 hours on the ground in West Palm Beach after arriving from Houston on November 9. That previous leg covered 814 nautical miles in 1 hour and 42 minutes.

The aircraft, a 2008 model with serial number 5210, is registered to Red Cloud Aviation LLC of Tampa. The FAA lists the owner as a company, not an individual. The Taylor tie rests on public attribution, not on a public filing. This flight added to the jet's 30-day total of 19 flights, 32.6 hours in the air, and about 128,299 kilograms of estimated carbon dioxide emissions.