Lawrence Stroll's Bombardier Global 7500 OE-LSS Flies Montreal to Albany in 29 Minutes
Why It MattersA long-range flagship jet making a sub-30-minute hop shows how ultra-long-range business jets are routinely used for short regional positioning, adding traffic to secondary airports like Albany.
A Bombardier Global 7500 registered OE-LSS, linked to Lawrence Stroll, flew from Montreal to Albany on October 22, 2026, covering 138 nautical miles (159 miles) in 29 minutes. The jet departed at 16:58 UTC and landed at 17:27 UTC. It is registered in Austria and managed by Skyemotion, and its tail letters match the owner's initials. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 283 knots and reached a highest altitude of 29,000 feet, with a top recorded ground speed of 501 knots. Celebplanes estimated the flight burned about 220 US gallons of fuel and produced about 2,115 kg of CO2.
The Global 7500 has a range of 7,700 nautical miles, a top speed of Mach 0.925, a service ceiling of 51,000 feet and seating for up to 19 passengers. The flight used about 2 percent of the aircraft's total range. Before this flight, the aircraft had not landed at Albany within the tracked window of 40 flights from September 2 to October 22, 2026. Its most common destinations in that period were Farnborough, Hampshire, and Carterton, Oxfordshire, with seven landings each, and Segrate, Italy, with six.
Other tracked aircraft landing at Albany in the 24 hours before this arrival included a Bombardier Challenger 850 linked to Corning and a HondaJet HA-420 linked to General Electric. No public events or meetings tied to Stroll or his organisation were reported near Albany on that date. In the 30 days before the flight, the jet visited 19 airports in nine countries, flew about 21,932 nautical miles and completed 28 flights totaling 57.9 hours in the air, with estimated CO2 output of about 250,221 kilograms.
