Gulfstream G700
Flying nowN540W · ICAO: A6D9E0 · Heavy jet

Media mogul, retired talk-show host, philanthropist; net worth ~$3.2–4.6B. First Black female billionaire. Owns 'The Promised Land' in Montecito (~$50M purchase, now $100M+, 70 acres) plus 1,000+ acres on Maui, a Telluride retreat, and the recently-sold Orcas Island estate.
N540W is her sixth aircraft to wear the same registration — currently a Gulfstream G700 delivered early 2024 (S/N 87027). The tail combines her birth year (1954) with her surname initial. Earlier N540Ws were a Gulfstream IV, Global Express XRS, G550, and G650/G650ER.
Primary hubs: Santa Barbara, Van Nuys, Teterboro, Kahului. The Santa Barbara↔Maui corridor is her heaviest. Other tracked: Midway, Las Vegas, Telluride, Phoenix, Cleveland, Palm Beach. Listed in the Yard 2022 top 10 emitters; labelled a 'climate hypocrite' by some flight trackers.
Note · Celebplanes tracks Oprah Winfrey's registered aircraft — not Oprah Winfrey personally. ADS-B data shows when and where the plane moved; who was aboard any given flight is unknown.
Where Oprah Winfrey's aircraft has flown — each dot is a recorded position.
Total flights
49
Total CO₂
543.1t
Flight hours
126h
N540W · ICAO: A6D9E0 · Heavy jet
Yes. Celebplanes tracks 1 aircraft associated with Oprah Winfrey: a Gulfstream G700 (N540W). Every movement is logged from the public ADS-B broadcast, so the flight history on this page is a record of the aircraft, not of who was aboard.
Oprah Winfrey flies a Gulfstream G700 (registration N540W). Live tracking, full flight history, and CO₂ emissions for each aircraft are available on this page.
Oprah Winfrey owns 1 tracked aircraft: N540W (Gulfstream G700). This is the count Celebplanes can evidence from public registration and ADS-B records; aircraft held through undisclosed entities or chartered rather than owned would not appear here.
Oprah Winfrey flies a Gulfstream G700 — Ultra Long Range class, 7,750 nm range, seating up to 19 (registration N540W).
Oprah Winfrey flies a Gulfstream G700 (N540W). A new Gulfstream G700 lists at approximately $80 million before options and completion — indicative mid-2026 market figures, not an appraisal. Actual value turns on airframe hours, engine-programme enrolment and cabin configuration.
Oprah Winfrey's private jet tail number is N540W (a Gulfstream G700). Each registration links to the live tracking page with full flight history, fuel burn and CO₂ emissions on Celebplanes.
Attributions derived from FAA registry + ADSB Exchange + SEC filings; may be incomplete or outdated. Methodology · Report an error. Observational use only.
Oprah Winfrey's Gulfstream G700 (N540W) burns roughly 450 gallons of Jet-A per hour, which converts to about 4,323 kg of CO₂ per flight hour — equivalent to roughly 10,700 miles of average passenger-car driving.
Oprah Winfrey's home base is Santa Barbara Muni (KSBA / SBA), with frequent destinations including KOGG, KVNY, KTEB, KMDW.
Across 49 tracked flights (126 flight hours) on Celebplanes, Oprah Winfrey's aircraft have emitted approximately 543.1t 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.