Vinod Khosla's Gulfstream V lands at San Jose after 4,755 nm flight from Rotterdam

Vinod Khosla's Gulfstream V, tail N85NV, departed Rotterdam The Hague Airport at 12:46 UTC on Thursday, October 29, 2026, and landed at Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport at 23:22 UTC, according to public ADS-B data collected by Celebplanes. The flight took 10 hours 37 minutes.

The great-circle distance from Rotterdam to San Jose is 4,755 nautical miles, or 5,472 miles. The aircraft reached a top ground speed of 532 knots and a highest altitude of 45,025 feet. Celebplanes estimates the flight burned about 4,562 US gallons of fuel, producing roughly 43,822 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 108,469 miles. The Gulfstream V is an ultra-long-range business jet that typically seats 14 passengers and has a service ceiling of 51,000 feet.

The aircraft's average ground speed on this leg was 448 knots. The flight used about 71 percent of the Gulfstream V's total range. The departure runway at Rotterdam The Hague Airport is 7,218 feet long, and the field sits 15 feet below sea level. The arrival runway at San Jose is 11,000 feet long, at an elevation of 62 feet.

This is the first tracked landing at San Jose 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. Usual destinations include Boeing Field in Seattle, Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport, Aspen, Austin, Washington Dulles, London Heathrow, and Mumbai. In the 30 days before this flight, all of the owner's aircraft made 37 flights, spent 98.6 hours in the air, and visited 27 airports in 13 countries. Another tracked aircraft, Elon Musk's Gulfstream G650ER, landed at San Jose about 13 hours earlier.

In the 30 days before this flight, the owner's most common destinations were Oakland, with 11 landings; Seattle, with 5 landings; and Denver, with 2 landings. The longest leg flown by any of the owner's aircraft in that period was Oakland to Narita on October 21, covering 4,411 nautical miles in the Gulfstream V. The aircraft had been on the ground for about 20 hours before departing Rotterdam.

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 Bay Area business news did not turn up any scheduled public appearance or board meeting for Vinod Khosla in San Jose around this date.

The aircraft had arrived at Rotterdam from Kuwait City on October 28, a flight of 2,356 nautical miles lasting 6 hours 57 minutes. Before that, on October 27, N85NV flew from Dubai to Kuwait City, covering 464 nautical miles in 1 hour 22 minutes. The Gulfstream V has a range of 6,675 nautical miles and a top speed of Mach 0.885.