Northrop Grumman Corporate jet tracker

Northrop Grumman Corporation — one of the five US defense primes, ~$41B revenue, ~97,000 employees. Corporate HQ at 2980 Fairview Park Drive, Falls Church VA; Aeronautics Systems is headquartered at 1 Hornet Way, El Segundo CA, the address on all four aircraft registrations. Principal programs include the B-21 Raider, the LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM, the James Webb Space Telescope bus, Triton and Global Hawk, and the F-35 centre fuselage.

Fleet of four, all held directly by Northrop Grumman Systems Corp rather than through a trustee — unusual candour for a company of this size, and the reason this entry ships without a `planeOwner` override. N38NG (2015) and N37NG (2018) are Gulfstream G550s, the standard large-cabin corporate pairing for a prime with sites strung between California, Utah, Alabama, Maryland and Florida. N37WH is a 1994 Gulfstream IV, the oldest airframe of the four and the one inherited from the Northrop/Grumman-era flight department. N804X is the odd one out: a 1999 Bombardier CL-600-2C10 — a CRJ-700, and MSN 10002, the second of the type ever built — operated as a flying testbed rather than as transport.

Nothing on a military registration is tracked here. Published sightings put N38NG at Los Angeles repeatedly, plus Dallas/Fort Worth, Offutt AFB, Gulfport, Stansted and Luton, Warsaw and Ottawa — the travel pattern of a prime servicing customer sites and overseas programs, not a single-hub executive shuttle.