Troy Taylor's Gulfstream G550 N10274 flies Texas Gulf Coast to Lafayette in 25 minutes

Troy Taylor's Gulfstream G550, tail number N10274, flew from Texas Gulf Coast Regional Airport in Angleton to Lafayette Regional Airport in Louisiana on Friday, November 13, 2026. The flight departed at 18:32 UTC and landed at 18:57 UTC, spending 25 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 great-circle distance between the two airports is 191 nautical miles, or 220 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 463 knots and reached a highest altitude of 23,000 feet and a top ground speed of 441 knots. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 170 US gallons of fuel and produced about 1,629 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 4,032 miles. The aircraft used only 3 percent of its maximum range on this short leg.

Before this flight, N10274 had not landed at Lafayette Regional Airport in the tracking window from October 19 to November 13. 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 25 flights totaling 40.0 hours in the air, with the most common destinations being Houston, with 10 landings, and Tampa, with 9 landings. The previous tracked landing before this flight was at Houston about two hours earlier.

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

Lafayette Regional Airport has a longest runway of 8,000 feet at an elevation of 42 feet. Texas Gulf Coast Regional Airport's longest runway is 7,000 feet at 25 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 Houston area after a series of flights between Tampa, Miami and Dulles in the preceding days. The aircraft remains at Lafayette Regional Airport as of the last recorded data.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited 10 airports in one country and flew about 15,235 nautical miles. The longest leg in that period was from Houston to West Palm Beach on November 9, covering 814 nautical miles. The distance from the home base at Tampa International Airport to Lafayette Regional Airport is 514 nautical miles.

Recent flights by the same owner include a trip from Tampa to Houston on November 13, covering 677 nautical miles in 1 hour 56 minutes. On November 12, the aircraft flew from Dulles to Tampa, 705 nautical miles in 1 hour 55 minutes, and from Miami to Dulles, 810 nautical miles in 1 hour 59 minutes. Earlier, on November 11, it flew from Tampa to Miami, 177 nautical miles in 44 minutes.