Troy Taylor's Gulfstream G550 N10274 flies Miami to MacDill in 27 minutes

Troy Taylor's Gulfstream G550, tail number N10274, flew from Miami International Airport to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa on Tuesday, November 10, 2026. The flight departed at 19:49 UTC and landed at 20:16 UTC, spending 27 minutes in the air. It is a 2008 Gulfstream G550, serial 5210, with a range of 6,750 nautical miles and a top speed of Mach 0.885. The aircraft can seat up to 19 passengers and has a service ceiling of 51,000 feet.

The great-circle distance between Miami and MacDill is 164 nautical miles, or 189 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 364 knots and reached a highest altitude of 18,000 feet and a top ground speed of 434 knots. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 185 US gallons of fuel and produced about 1,780 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 4,406 miles. The aircraft used only 2 percent of its maximum range on this short leg.

Before this flight, N10274 had not landed at Tampa International Airport in the tracking window from October 19 to November 10. Its home base is Tampa International Airport, and its usual destinations on file include Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport. In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft made 20 flights totaling 33.0 hours in the air, with the most common destinations being Houston and Tampa. The previous tracked landing before this flight was at Miami about one hour earlier, coming from West Palm Beach.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited 7 airports in one country and flew about 12,701 nautical miles. The longest leg in that period was Houston to West Palm Beach on November 9, covering 814 nautical miles in 1 hour 42 minutes. The most common destinations were Houston, with 9 landings, and Tampa, with 8 landings.

Troy Taylor is the founder, chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Beverages Florida, a Tampa company that bottles and sells Coca-Cola drinks across most of Florida. 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. MacDill Air Force Base is located about 8 nautical miles from Tampa International Airport, near Taylor's home base and company headquarters.

Taylor's aircraft is registered to Red Cloud Aviation LLC of Tampa, according to the FAA. The LLC name does not publicly identify Taylor as the owner, so the connection rests on attribution from public sources. The flight to MacDill, a military airfield, is unusual compared to the aircraft's typical pattern of civilian airports. No public events or meetings involving Taylor or his company were found near MacDill on that date.

MacDill Air Force Base has a longest runway of 11,421 feet at an elevation of 14 feet. Miami International Airport's longest runway is 13,016 feet at 8 feet elevation. The Gulfstream G550 is a GV-SP type, with over 617 in operation worldwide. The aircraft's estimated fuel burn is 410 US gallons per hour.

The Gulfstream G550 returned to the Tampa area after a series of flights between Tampa and Houston in the preceding days. The aircraft remains at MacDill Air Force Base as of the last recorded data.