Troy Taylor's Gulfstream G550 N10274 flies Tampa to Miami in 44 minutes

Troy Taylor's Gulfstream G550, tail number N10274, flew from Tampa International Airport to Miami International Airport on Wednesday, November 11, 2026. The flight departed at 23:44 UTC and landed at 00:28 UTC, spending 44 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 Tampa and Miami is 177 nautical miles, or 204 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 240 knots and reached a highest altitude of 23,025 feet and a top ground speed of 489 knots. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 302 US gallons of fuel and produced about 2,905 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 7,190 miles. The aircraft used only 3 percent of its maximum range on this short leg.

Tampa International Airport has a longest runway of 11,002 feet at an elevation of 26 feet. Miami International Airport's longest runway is 13,016 feet at 8 feet elevation. The great-circle distance from the home base on file to Miami is 178 nautical miles.

Before this flight, N10274 had made 1 landing at Miami in the tracking window from October 19 to November 10, with the last one on November 10, 1 day before this flight. 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 21 flights totaling 33.4 hours in the air, with the most common destinations being Houston, with 9 landings, and Tampa, with 8 landings. The previous tracked landing before this flight was at Tampa about 27 hours earlier. In the 24 hours before this landing, two other tracked aircraft landed at Miami: Eli Lilly's Gulfstream G500 about 23 hours earlier, and Corning's Dassault Falcon 900 about 5 hours earlier.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited 8 airports in 1 country and flew about 12,866 nautical miles. The longest leg in that period was from Houston to West Palm Beach on November 9, covering 814 nautical miles. Recent flights by the same owner include a Miami-to-Tampa leg on November 10 lasting 27 minutes over 164 nautical miles, and a West Palm Beach-to-Miami leg the same day of 23 minutes over 53 nautical miles.

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. Miami is a key market for Coca-Cola Beverages Florida, which distributes products across the state including Miami. No public events or meetings involving Taylor or his company were found near Miami on that date.

The 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 Miami, a regular commercial airport, fits the aircraft's typical pattern of civilian airports. The Gulfstream G550 remains at Miami International Airport as of the last recorded data.