Gulfstream G650ER
N628TS · ICAO: A835AF · Heavy jet

CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, founder of xAI, executive chairman of X. Net worth ~$367–500B; world's richest person 2024–25. Co-led DOGE under President Trump's second administration before departing May 2025. Lives in a ~$50K SpaceX-rented home one block from Starbase, Texas; sold all California properties in the 2020 'own no house' pledge; denied reports of a $35M Austin compound.
Fleet: five Gulfstreams through Falcon Landing LLC. N628TS (G650ER, primary, tail nods to his 6/28 birthday), N272BG and N502SX (G550s), N450GG (G450), and the new N8628 G800 delivered February 2025. The retired N900SX Falcon 900B was his first jet; sold 2016.
2024: 355 flights / ~881 hours. Heavy political travel: 31 flights to/from Palm Beach in 2024. Carbon ~4,000–5,443 metric tons. Banned @ElonJet from X after the 2022 acquisition; the new G800 carries his birthday in the tail and lacks full PIA protection.
Total flights
37
Total CO₂
299.2t
Flight hours
74h
N628TS · ICAO: A835AF · Heavy jet
N8628 · ICAO: ABD9B5 · Heavy jet
N272BG · ICAO: A2AE0A · Heavy jet
N502SX · ICAO: A64304 · Heavy jet
N450GG · ICAO: A572B9 · Heavy jet
Elon Musk flies 4 aircraft: Gulfstream G650ER, Gulfstream G800, Gulfstream G550, Gulfstream G450 (N628TS, N8628, N272BG, N502SX, and more). Live tracking, full flight history, and CO₂ emissions for each aircraft are available on this page.
Elon Musk's private jet tail numbers are N628TS (Gulfstream G650ER), N8628 (Gulfstream G800), N272BG (Gulfstream G550), N502SX (Gulfstream G550), and 1 more. Each registration links to the live tracking page with full flight history, fuel burn and CO₂ emissions on Celebplanes.
Elon Musk's Gulfstream G650ER (N628TS) burns roughly 470 gallons of Jet-A per hour, which converts to about 4,515 kg of CO₂ per flight hour — equivalent to roughly 11,176 miles of average passenger-car driving.
Elon Musk's home base is Austin–Bergstrom Intl (KAUS / AUS), with frequent destinations including KBRO, KSJC, KLAX, KPBI.
Across 37 tracked flights (74 flight hours) on Celebplanes, Elon Musk's aircraft have emitted approximately 299.2t of CO₂. These figures are calculated from public ADS-B flight times multiplied by manufacturer-published fuel burn × the EPA standard 9.57 kg CO₂/gallon for Jet-A.
Yes. Every transponder-equipped aircraft broadcasts unencrypted ADS-B position data continuously, by FAA mandate. Celebplanes aggregates this public broadcast from ADSB Exchange, ADSB.fi, FlightRadar24 and airplanes.live — the same sources used by news outlets and academic researchers. See celebplanes.com/methodology for details.
Attributions derived from FAA registry + ADSB Exchange + SEC filings; may be incomplete or outdated. Methodology · Report an error. Observational use only.