Gulfstream V N474D, Tracked Jet Linked to Lady Gaga, Flies Flagstaff to Teterboro in 3h 56m
Why It MattersCelebrity-linked tail tracking turns ordinary ultra-long-range positioning flights into public emissions and utilisation estimates, so owners' routine movement patterns increasingly become visible and attributable without any operator disclosure.
What happened
Gulfstream V N474D flew 1,781 nautical miles (2,050 miles) from Flagstaff to Teterboro on November 7, 2026. It departed at 14:07 UTC and landed at 18:03 UTC, spending 3 hours and 56 minutes in the air. The flight used about 27 percent of the aircraft's 6,675 nautical mile range.
The aircraft reached a highest altitude of 45,025 feet and a top ground speed of 534 knots. Celebplanes estimates the flight burned about 1,691 US gallons of fuel and produced about 16.2 metric tons of CO2. Before departing, the jet had spent about 18 hours on the ground at Flagstaff.
The Gulfstream V is an ultra long range jet that can seat up to 16 passengers and has a service ceiling of 51,000 feet. N474D's home base on file is Teterboro Airport, and it frequently flies to Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport, Westchester County Airport, Hollywood Burbank Airport and Charleston International Airport. In the tracked window before this flight, it had landed at Teterboro 10 times, the last on October 16, 2026, 22 days earlier.
Flagstaff Pulliam Airport's longest runway is 8,800 feet, and the field sits at 7,014 feet elevation. Teterboro's longest runway is 6,997 feet, with an elevation of 9 feet.
The prior 30 days
In the 30 days before this flight, N474D visited seven airports in two countries and flew seven flights totaling 19.9 hours in the air, covering about 7,588 nautical miles. Celebplanes estimates those flights produced about 82,004 kilograms of CO2.
The longest leg in that period was from Alicante to Bedford on October 11, covering 3,154 nautical miles at an average ground speed of 453 knots. The most common destinations in the tracked window were Teterboro with 10 landings, Westhampton Beach with five and Bedford with two.
Industry impact & what to watch
Tail-number tracking tied to a public figure shows how much of a large-cabin jet's flying is repositioning and short-notice domestic legs rather than long international sectors. Here a Gulfstream V that crossed the Atlantic in October used about 27 percent of its range on a coast-to-coast return, with a high-elevation field at one end and a short runway at the other. Those are the airfield constraints that shape how aircraft of this class are scheduled and loaded.
The emissions and fuel figures attached to the flight are third-party estimates, not operator-reported data. They matter because aggregators now publish per-flight CO2 numbers for individual tails, which feeds the wider debate over private aviation's footprint without any disclosure from the owner or operator. The same estimates, once published, are quoted and compared across flights regardless of how they were derived.
The link to Lady Gaga rests on celebplanes' association of the tail with her, and the flight record itself says nothing about who was aboard. If she was aboard, the trip would have been a return after a short stop in Arizona, with Teterboro serving as the closest major private jet airport to her Manhattan townhouse.
