Vinod Khosla's Challenger 604 flies 66 miles from Oakland to Monterey

Vinod Khosla's Bombardier Challenger 604, tail N604SB, departed Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport at 16:57 UTC on Friday, October 30, 2026, and landed at Monterey Regional Airport at 17:26 UTC. The flight took 29 minutes, according to public ADS-B data collected by Celebplanes.

The great-circle distance from Oakland to Monterey is 66 nautical miles, or 76 miles. The aircraft reached a top ground speed of 294 knots and a highest altitude of 7,050 feet. Celebplanes estimates the flight burned about 134 US gallons of fuel, producing roughly 1,284 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 3,179 miles. The Bombardier Challenger 604 is a large cabin business jet that typically seats 9 to 12 passengers, has a range of 3,900 nautical miles, and a service ceiling of 41,000 feet.

This is the first tracked landing at Monterey 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, 47 nautical miles from Monterey. Usual destinations include Boeing Field in Seattle, Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport, Aspen, Austin, and London Heathrow. In the 30 days before this flight, all of the owner's aircraft made 37 flights, spent 104.2 hours in the air, and visited 27 airports in 12 countries. A Gulfstream G500 operated by Eli Lilly landed at Monterey less than an hour before N604SB.

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 local business news did not turn up any scheduled public appearance or board meeting for Vinod Khosla in Monterey around this date.

The short flight from Oakland to Monterey is a routine repositioning for a large cabin jet. It follows a busy period for the fleet, which included a 4,755 nautical mile leg from Rotterdam to San Jose on October 29 aboard the owner's Gulfstream V, N85NV.

The Bombardier Challenger 604 has a top speed of Mach 0.82, or 459 knots. The flight used about 2 percent of the aircraft's range. The average ground speed was 138 knots. The departure airport, Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport, has a longest runway of 10,520 feet at an elevation of 9 feet. The arrival airport, Monterey Regional Airport, has a longest runway of 7,175 feet at an elevation of 257 feet.

Before this flight, the aircraft had been on the ground for about 4 days. Its previous tracked landing was on October 27, 2026, at Oakland. In the 30 days before this flight, the most common destinations for all of the owner's aircraft were Oakland, with 12 landings; Seattle, with 5 landings; and Denver, with 2 landings.