Falcon 900EX N828ML Flies Miami Executive to Tampa in 36 Minutes

Falcon 900EX N828ML landed at Tampa International Airport on November 13, 2026, after flying from Miami Executive Airport. It departed at 18:07 UTC and landed at 18:43 UTC, spending 36 minutes in the air over the 179 nautical mile (206 mile) route. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 294 knots, reached a top speed of 462 knots and a highest altitude of 22,050 feet. Celebplanes estimates the flight burned about 195 US gallons of fuel and produced about 1,869 kilograms of CO2.

The aircraft is registered to Walkabout Air Inc, the Tampa aircraft management company founded in 1995 by Bob Basham. It is a 1997 Falcon 900EX, serial number 025, a long-range trijet with a maximum range of 4,500 nautical miles, a service ceiling of 51,000 feet and seating for up to 16 passengers. This flight used about 4 percent of that range. Miami Executive's longest runway is 6,000 feet at 8 feet elevation; Tampa's is 11,002 feet at 26 feet elevation.

This was the 10th tracked landing at Tampa between August 13 and November 12, 2026, and the previous one was on November 8. Tampa is the home base on file for N828ML. In that window the most common destinations were Tampa with nine landings, Timberlake (KTDF) with six and Tallahassee (KTLH) with two. The aircraft had been on the ground for about 29 hours after a previous tracked landing at Coral Gable on November 12. In the 30 days before this flight it made 10 flights totaling 12.2 hours in the air, covering about 4,221 nautical miles.

Basham is a Tampa-based restaurateur who co-founded Outback Steakhouse in 1988 and later co-founded the fast-casual chain PDQ, whose first restaurant opened in late 2011 on South Dale Mabry Highway in Tampa. His private investment firm, MVP Holdings, is also based in Tampa. Web searches found no specific public event tied to Basham in Tampa on the date of the flight, and because Walkabout operates as a working charter business, not every flight is necessarily a personal trip for him.