Vinod Khosla's Gulfstream V lands at Narita after an 11-hour Pacific crossing

Vinod Khosla's Gulfstream V, tail N85NV, departed Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport at 12:15 UTC on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, and landed at Narita International Airport in Tokyo at 23:25 UTC. The flight took 11 hours and 10 minutes, according to public ADS-B data collected by Celebplanes. The aircraft reached a top ground speed of 504 knots and a highest altitude of 45,025 feet.

The great-circle distance from Oakland to Narita is 4,411 nautical miles, or 5,077 miles. The Gulfstream V used about 66 percent of its 6,675 nautical mile range. Celebplanes estimates the flight burned about 4,804 US gallons of fuel, producing roughly 46,150 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 114,232 miles. The Gulfstream V is an ultra long range business jet that typically seats 14 to 16 passengers and has a service ceiling of 51,000 feet.

This is the first tracked landing at Narita for any of Vinod Khosla's aircraft in the 30 days before this flight. Vinod Khosla's home base on file is Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport, 4,468 nautical miles from Narita. Usual destinations include Boeing Field in Seattle, Teterboro, Aspen, Austin, and London Heathrow. In the 30 days before this flight, all of the owner's aircraft made 27 flights, spent 73.3 hours in the air, and visited 14 airports in 4 countries.

Vinod Khosla co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and founded Khosla Ventures in 2004. He is a major early investor in OpenAI and lives in Portola Valley, California. In September 2026, Vinod, his wife Neeru, and their son Neal Khosla closed on the purchase of the Seattle Seahawks from the Paul G. Allen estate for $9.612 billion, the highest price ever paid for an NFL team. A search of Japanese business news did not turn up any scheduled public appearance or board meeting for Vinod Khosla in Tokyo around this date.

The flight from Oakland to Narita is a routine transpacific repositioning for an ultra long range jet. It adds a long leg to a fleet that has flown 36 tracked flights in the last five weeks.

The Gulfstream V averaged 395 knots ground speed on the leg. Oakland's longest runway is 10,520 feet at an elevation of 9 feet. Narita's longest runway is 13,123 feet at 141 feet elevation. The aircraft is an original GV, the first ultra-long-range Gulfstream, with a top speed of Mach 0.885.

Before this flight, the aircraft had been on the ground about 5 days, since its previous tracked landing at Oakland on October 16. In the prior 30 days, the longest leg for any of the owner's aircraft was Edinburgh to Seattle on October 4, covering 3,881 nautical miles. The owner's other jet, N604SB, a Bombardier Challenger 604, flew Oakland to Augusta on October 19.