Troy Taylor's Gulfstream G550 N10274 flies Dulles to Houston in 2 hours 37 minutes

Troy Taylor's Gulfstream G550, tail number N10274, flew from Washington Dulles International Airport to William P. Hobby Airport in Houston on Saturday, November 14, 2026. The flight departed at 20:44 UTC and landed at 23:21 UTC, spending 2 hours 37 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 Dulles and Hobby is 1,038 nautical miles, or 1,194 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 397 knots and reached a highest altitude of 43,025 feet and a top ground speed of 474 knots. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 1,072 US gallons of fuel and produced about 10,297 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 25,488 miles. The aircraft used 15 percent of its maximum range on this leg.

Before this flight, N10274 had landed at Houston 10 times in the tracking window from October 19 to November 13, with the most recent Houston landing on November 13, one 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 28 flights totaling 42.5 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 Dulles about 23 hours earlier, coming from Baton Rouge.

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. Houston is not a known base for Taylor's business or personal activities, and no public events or meetings involving Taylor or his company were found near Houston on that date.

The aircraft returned to Houston, a frequent destination, after a series of flights that included stops in Tampa, Miami, Dulles, Baton Rouge, Lafayette and Angleton over the previous days. N10274 remains at William P. Hobby Airport as of the last recorded data.

The aircraft is a GV-SP type, with more than 617 in operation worldwide. It burns an estimated 410 US gallons of fuel per hour. The departure airport, Washington Dulles, has a longest runway of 11,500 feet at an elevation of 312 feet. The arrival airport, William P. Hobby, has a longest runway of 7,602 feet at an elevation of 46 feet. The distance from the home base in Tampa to Hobby is 678 nautical miles.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft used 13 airports in one country and flew about 16,315 nautical miles. The longest leg in that period was from Baton Rouge to Dulles on November 13, covering 841 nautical miles. Recent flights include a 1-hour-56-minute trip from Tampa to Houston on November 13, a 1-hour-55-minute trip from Dulles to Tampa on November 12, and a 1-hour-59-minute trip from Miami to Dulles on November 12.