Troy Taylor's Gulfstream G550 N10274 flies Miami Executive to Dulles in under 2 hours

Troy Taylor's Gulfstream G550, tail number N10274, flew from Miami Executive Airport to Washington Dulles International Airport on Thursday, November 12, 2026. The flight departed at 02:50 UTC and landed at 04:49 UTC, spending 1 hour 59 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 Executive and Dulles is 810 nautical miles, or 933 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 409 knots and reached a highest altitude of 45,025 feet and a top ground speed of 538 knots. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 812 US gallons of fuel and produced about 7,800 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 19,306 miles. The aircraft used only 12 percent of its maximum range on this leg.

The departure airport, Miami Executive, has a longest runway of 6,000 feet at an elevation of 8 feet. Dulles has a longest runway of 11,500 feet at 312 feet elevation. The distance from Tampa, the aircraft's home base, to Dulles is 706 nautical miles.

Before this flight, N10274 had not landed at Dulles in the tracking window from October 19 to November 11. 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 22 flights totaling 34.1 hours in the air, with the most common destinations being Houston and Tampa. The previous tracked landing before this flight was at Miami about two hours earlier. Other tracked aircraft that landed at Dulles in the 24 hours before this landing included a Gulfstream G600 operated by AT&T, a Gulfstream G550 operated by Northrop Grumman, a Gulfstream G280 operated by Target, and a Gulfstream G650ER operated by Medtronic.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited eight airports in one country and flew about 13,043 nautical miles. The longest leg in that period was Houston to West Palm Beach on November 9, covering 814 nautical miles. The most common destinations were Houston with nine landings, Tampa with eight, and Miami with two.

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. Washington Dulles International Airport is located near the Washington, D.C., area, where no public events or meetings involving Taylor or his company were found on that date.

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 Dulles is a longer trip compared to the aircraft's typical pattern of shorter hops between Tampa and Houston.

The Gulfstream G550 remains at Washington Dulles International Airport as of the last recorded data.