Troy Taylor's Gulfstream G550 N10274 flies Lafayette to Baton Rouge in 16 minutes

Troy Taylor's Gulfstream G550, tail number N10274, flew from Lafayette Regional Airport to Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport on Friday, November 13, 2026. The flight departed at 19:19 UTC and landed at 19:35 UTC, spending 16 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 Lafayette and Baton Rouge is 48 nautical miles, or 55 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 182 knots and reached a highest altitude of 9,925 feet and a top ground speed of 302 knots. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 107 US gallons of fuel and produced about 1,032 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 2,554 miles. The aircraft used only 1 percent of its maximum range on this short leg.

Before this flight, N10274 had not landed at Baton Rouge Metropolitan 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 26 flights totaling 40.4 hours in the air, with the most common destinations being Houston and Tampa. The previous tracked landing before this flight was at Lafayette about 0 hours earlier, coming from Angleton. A Dow Bombardier CRJ-900 landed at Baton Rouge about 21 hours before this flight.

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. Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana, about 477 nautical miles from Taylor's home base in Tampa. No public events or meetings involving Taylor or his company were found near Baton Rouge on that date.

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 Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport as of the last recorded data.

Lafayette Regional Airport has a longest runway of 8,000 feet at an elevation of 42 feet. Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport's longest runway is 7,500 feet at an elevation of 70 feet. The Gulfstream G550 is a GV-SP type, with over 617 in operation worldwide. The aircraft burns an estimated 410 US gallons of fuel per hour.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited 12 airports in one country and flew about 15,427 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 in that window were Houston with 10 landings, Tampa with 9, and Miami with 2.