George Lucas's Gulfstream G700 N138GL Flies 168 nm From Teterboro to Boston in 58 Minutes
Why It MattersTail-level tracking of high-profile private jets, down to leg-by-leg fuel burn and CO2 estimates, shows how visible large-cabin flight activity and its emissions footprint have become to the public.
A 2025 Gulfstream G700, registration N138GL, flew from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey to Boston on November 11, 2026, departing at 18:07 UTC and landing at 19:06 UTC. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 168 nautical miles (193 miles). The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 172 knots and reached a top speed of 458 knots. The flight burned about 468 gallons of fuel and produced an estimated 4,493 kilograms of CO2.
The aircraft is registered to SWR Services III LLC of Palo Alto and managed by Solairus Aviation, and is associated with filmmaker George Lucas, creator of Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Its home base is San Francisco International Airport, 2,344 nautical miles from Boston. The G700 has a range of 7,750 nautical miles, a top speed of Mach 0.935 and a ceiling of 51,000 feet; this flight used about 2 percent of its range. It was the first tracked landing at Boston in the window from September 3 to November 10, 2026.
The aircraft had been on the ground at Teterboro for about 22 hours. Its previous tracked flight was from Chicago to Teterboro on November 10, covering 666 nautical miles in 1 hour 7 minutes. Before that, on November 9, it flew from Oakland to Chicago, 1,600 nautical miles in 3 hours 32 minutes. In the 30 days before the Boston flight, the aircraft made 17 tracked flights, spent 42.9 hours in the air and produced an estimated 197,911 kilograms of CO2. It visited nine airports and flew about 18,565 nautical miles.
Other tracked aircraft landing at Boston in the preceding 24 hours included a Dassault Falcon 900EX registered to State Farm, a Bombardier Challenger 605 registered to FMC Corp, a Gulfstream G280 registered to Goldman Sachs and a Gulfstream G550 registered to Kumar Mangalam Birla. No public events or appearances tied to George Lucas were found near Boston on this date.
