Boeing 737 MAX 9 BBJ
VT-AKV · ICAO: 80169F · Airliner jet

Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries (~$125B revenue), India's largest company by revenue. Born April 19, 1957 in Aden, Yemen. India's richest person for 14+ consecutive years; net worth ~$99.6–105B. Lives at Antilia in Mumbai — a 27-storey, 400,000 sq ft private skyscraper on Cumballa Hill, ~$1–2B value, three helipads, 50-seat cinema, snow room, hanging gardens, parking for 168 cars, staff of ~600. Stoke Park UK (~£59M, 300 acres). Reliance owns the Mandarin Oriental NY ($98M, 2022).
VT-AKV is a Boeing 737 MAX 9 BBJ (MSN 8401, hex 80169F) — India's first MAX 9 BBJ. Arrived August 27, 2024; customization >$120M. Base: Mumbai (BOM).
Nov–Dec 2024 movements: Tokyo, Bangkok, Dubai, Muscat, Maafaru (Maldives), Jeddah; domestic Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Jamnagar (Anant's pre-wedding gala hosted 1,600 guests, including Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg).
Total flights
47
Total CO₂
165.9t
Flight hours
22h
VT-AKV · ICAO: 80169F · Airliner jet
Mukesh Ambani flies a Boeing 737 MAX 9 BBJ (registration VT-AKV). Live tracking, full flight history, and CO₂ emissions for each aircraft are available on this page.
Mukesh Ambani's private jet tail number is VT-AKV (a Boeing 737 MAX 9 BBJ). Each registration links to the live tracking page with full flight history, fuel burn and CO₂ emissions on Celebplanes.
Mukesh Ambani's Boeing 737 MAX 9 BBJ (VT-AKV) burns roughly 800 gallons of Jet-A per hour, which converts to about 7,685 kg of CO₂ per flight hour — equivalent to roughly 19,023 miles of average passenger-car driving.
Mukesh Ambani's home base is Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji (VABB / BOM), with frequent destinations including RJTT, VTBS, OMDB, OOMS.
Across 47 tracked flights (22 flight hours) on Celebplanes, Mukesh Ambani's aircraft have emitted approximately 165.9t 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.
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