Tyler Perry's Embraer E-190 flies 17 miles from Atlanta to Marietta in 13 minutes

Tyler Perry's Embraer E-190, tail number N378TP, departed Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport at 23:32 UTC on Monday, November 2, 2026, and landed at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia, at 23:46 UTC. The flight took 13 minutes.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 17 nautical miles, or 19 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 77 knots and reached a highest altitude of 2,700 feet. Its top ground speed was 234 knots. The flight burned an estimated 132 gallons of fuel, producing about 1,268 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 3,139 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.

N378TP has landed at Dobbins Air Reserve Base seven times in the tracked window from September 7 to November 2, 2026. The last landing at Dobbins before this flight was earlier on the same day, November 2. The aircraft's home base is Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. 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 Fort Lauderdale on October 31, a round trip between Marietta and San Juan on October 31 and November 1, and a flight from Gunnison to Marietta earlier on November 2.

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's fuel burn is estimated at 600 US gallons per hour. Dobbins Air Reserve Base has a longest runway of 10,002 feet at an elevation of 1,068 feet. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport's longest runway is 12,390 feet at an elevation of 1,026 feet.

In the 30 days before this flight, N378TP flew 11 flights totaling 22.1 hours in the air, covering about 9,679 nautical miles across 9 airports in 3 countries. Those flights produced an estimated 127,659 kilograms of CO2. The longest leg in that period was from San Juan to Montrose on November 1, covering 2,497 nautical miles.