James Dolan's Gulfstream G550 N5465M Flies Teterboro to Boston in 45 Minutes
Why It MattersA long-range jet flying a sub-hour, 164-nautical-mile hop shows how ultra-large-cabin aircraft are used for short regional repositioning, with fuel burn and CO2 well out of proportion to the distance.
A Gulfstream G550, registration N5465M, flew from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey to Boston on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, covering 164 nautical miles (189 miles) in about 45 minutes. It departed Teterboro at 10:37 UTC, averaged 218 knots ground speed, reached a top ground speed of 431 knots and a highest altitude of 16,775 feet. The flight used about 2 percent of the aircraft's range, with an estimated fuel burn of about 325 US gallons and roughly 3,119 kg of CO2.
The G550 is an ultra-long-range jet with a maximum range of 6,750 nautical miles, a service ceiling of 51,000 feet, a top speed of Mach 0.885 (488 knots) and seating for up to 19 passengers. More than 617 are in operation worldwide, and its estimated fuel burn is 430 US gallons per hour.
N5465M is one of three aircraft tracked for James Dolan, executive chairman of Madison Square Garden and owner of the New York Knicks. It had sat at Teterboro for about six hours after a November 3 flight from Burbank, which covered 2,123 nautical miles in 4 hours 29 minutes. In the 30 days before this flight, none of the three aircraft had landed at Boston; the fleet made 40 flights covering about 35,319 nautical miles, with East Farmingdale (14 landings), Newark (7) and Teterboro (3) the most common destinations.
Teterboro's longest runway is 6,997 feet at 9 feet elevation; Boston Logan's is 10,083 feet at 20 feet elevation.
