Troy Taylor's Gulfstream G550 N10274 flies Tampa to Houston in 1 hour 56 minutes

Troy Taylor's Gulfstream G550, tail number N10274, flew from Tampa International Airport to William P. Hobby Airport in Houston on Friday, November 13, 2026. The flight departed at 15:00 UTC and landed at 16:56 UTC, spending 1 hour and 56 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 Houston is 677 nautical miles, or 779 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 350 knots and reached a highest altitude of 43,025 feet and a top ground speed of 469 knots. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 794 US gallons of fuel and produced about 7,626 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 18,875 miles. The aircraft used only 10 percent of its maximum range on this leg.

Before this flight, N10274 had landed at Houston 9 times in the tracking window from October 19 to November 12. The last previous landing at Houston was on November 6, 7 days 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 24 flights totaling 38.0 hours in the air, with the most common destinations being Houston and Tampa. The previous tracked landing before this flight was at Tampa about 32 hours earlier, coming from Dulles. Other tracked aircraft at Houston in the 24 hours before this landing included John Travolta's Dassault Falcon 900B, which landed about 19 hours earlier, and Marc Anthony's Gulfstream G550, which landed about 15 hours earlier.

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. No public events or meetings involving Taylor or his company were found near Houston on that date.

The Gulfstream G550 returned to Houston after a series of flights between Tampa and Houston in the preceding days. The aircraft remains at William P. Hobby Airport as of the last recorded data.

William P. Hobby Airport's longest runway is 7,602 feet, with an elevation of 46 feet. The flight from Tampa covered 678 nautical miles, slightly more than the great-circle distance. In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited 10 airports and flew about 14,558 nautical miles. The longest leg in that period was Houston to West Palm Beach on November 9, covering 814 nautical miles.

Recent flights by the same owner include a Tampa-to-Miami trip on November 11, lasting 44 minutes over 177 nautical miles. On November 10, the aircraft flew from Miami to Tampa in 27 minutes, covering 164 nautical miles, and from West Palm Beach to Miami in 23 minutes over 53 nautical miles. A Tampa-to-Houston flight on November 6 took 2 hours and 1 minute over 679 nautical miles.