Taylor Swift's Falcon 7X N3200X Flies Van Nuys to Kansas City in 2 Hours 32 Minutes
Why It MattersFrequent point-to-point flying by a single ultra-long-range jet shows how heavily a few high-profile aircraft concentrate activity and emissions at secondary business-aviation airports like Kansas City Downtown.
A Falcon 7X, N3200X, linked to Taylor Swift flew from Van Nuys to Kansas City's Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport on October 18, departing at 14:11 UTC and landing at 16:43 UTC, a flight time of 2 hours 32 minutes. The great-circle distance is 1,179 nautical miles (1,357 miles). The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 466 knots, reached a top ground speed of 558 knots and a highest altitude of 41,025 feet. Estimates put fuel burn at about 633 US gallons and carbon dioxide output at about 6,076 kilograms. The flight used 20 percent of the Falcon 7X's 5,950-nautical-mile range.
The landing was the aircraft's 12th tracked landing at Kansas City in the 40-flight window from September 4 to October 14, 2026; the previous one was on October 12. Before this flight the aircraft had spent about four days on the ground at Van Nuys after landing there on October 14. In the 30 days before the flight, the aircraft made 26 flights, used 11 airports, flew about 18,953 nautical miles and spent 48.3 hours in the air, producing about 116,050 kilograms of carbon dioxide. The most common destinations were Nashville (11 landings), Kansas City (11) and Newark (9).
Van Nuys Airport has a longest runway of 8,001 feet at 802 feet elevation; Wheeler Downtown has 6,827 feet at 759 feet. The Falcon 7X is an ultra long range trijet with a top speed of Mach 0.90 and a 51,000-foot ceiling, typically seating 12 to 16. Swift was ranked the top celebrity carbon dioxide offender in a 2022 study, with 8,293 metric tons over 170 flights in seven months. She served a cease-and-desist to Jack Sweeney in 2024 and spent about $15 million re-registering the aircraft to evade tracking; Sweeney found it within days.
