Tyler Perry's Embraer E-190 flies 15-mile loop from Dobbins in 10 minutes

Tyler Perry's Embraer E-190, tail number N378TP, departed Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia, at 11:57 UTC on Saturday, October 31, 2026, and landed back at the same airport at 12:07 UTC. The flight took 10 minutes. The aircraft flew a short loop, covering a great-circle distance of 15 nautical miles, or 17 miles. It reached a highest altitude of 2,675 feet and a top ground speed of 232 knots.

The aircraft departed from Dobbins Air Reserve Base, which has a longest runway of 10,002 feet and sits at an elevation of 1,068 feet. In the 30 days before this flight, the plane made 11 flights, spending 22.2 hours in the air and producing an estimated 128,168 kilograms of CO2. The longest leg in that period was from Van Nuys to Marietta on October 2, covering 1,677 nautical miles.

The flight averaged a ground speed of 86 knots. The aircraft burned an estimated 101 gallons of fuel, producing about 973 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 2,410 miles. The Embraer E-190 is a regional jet with a range of 2,450 nautical miles, a top speed of Mach 0.82, and a service ceiling of 41,000 feet. It typically seats 95 to 114 passengers. This flight used about 1 percent of the aircraft's range.

N378TP has landed at Dobbins Air Reserve Base seven times in the tracked window from September 4 to October 19, 2026. The last landing at Dobbins before this flight was on October 19, 12 days earlier. The aircraft's home base is Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, about 17 nautical miles from Dobbins. Its usual destinations include Inagua Airport in the Bahamas, Van Nuys Airport in California, Jackson Hole Airport in Wyoming, North Eleuthera Airport in the Bahamas, President Donald J. Trump International Airport in West Palm Beach, and Miami International Airport. Recent flights include a trip from Marietta to Moore's Island on October 12, a round trip between Marietta and Dallas on October 8 and 9, and a flight from San Juan to Marietta on October 3. In the 24 hours before this landing, a Norfolk Southern Embraer Praetor 500 also landed at Dobbins, about 17 hours earlier.

The aircraft's tracked history shows 33 flights from September 4 to October 19, with Marietta as the most common landing spot at seven times, followed by Van Nuys with five and Bellingham with four. In the 30 days before this flight, it used 10 airports across 3 countries and flew about 9,920 nautical miles. The plane's estimated fuel burn is 600 US gallons per hour.

Tyler Perry is a filmmaker, actor, playwright, and studio owner with a net worth of about $1.4 billion. He is the first African-American to outright own a major film studio. He is building an estate on 856 acres in Douglasville, Georgia, which includes a 35,000-square-foot mansion and a private airplane runway. Dobbins Air Reserve Base is located about 17 nautical miles from Perry's home base and is near the aerospace and logistics corridor northwest of Atlanta. A web search did not find a specific public appearance or event tied to Tyler Perry or his organization at Dobbins Air Reserve Base on this date.

The short hop is consistent with repositioning between Perry's private airstrip and an airfield with longer runways. The aircraft had been on the ground for about 12 days before this flight, with its previous tracked landing at Marietta on October 19.