Oprah Winfrey's Gulfstream G700 Flies Mesa to Teterboro, 1,842 nm in 3h 37m
Why It MattersTail-level tracking of high-profile ultra-long-range jets shows how large-cabin aircraft are used for modest transcontinental sectors, using only a fraction of their available range.
A Gulfstream G700 registered to Oprah Winfrey, N540W, flew from Mesa Gateway Airport (KIWA) to Teterboro Airport (KTEB) on November 10, 2026. The flight took 3 hours and 37 minutes and covered a great-circle distance of 1,842 nautical miles (2,120 miles, 3,412 km). The jet averaged 509 knots ground speed, reached a top ground speed of 616 knots and a highest altitude of 45,025 feet. It burned an estimated 1,629 US gallons of fuel, producing about 15,644 kg of CO2, and used 24 percent of its 7,750 nm range.
Mesa Gateway's longest runway is 10,401 feet at 1,382 feet elevation; Teterboro's longest runway is 6,997 feet at 9 feet elevation. The distance from the aircraft's home base at Santa Barbara Municipal Airport (KSBA) to Teterboro is 2,185 nautical miles.
This was the fourth landing at Teterboro within a tracked window of 37 flights since July 14, 2026. The previous Teterboro landing was on September 9, 2026, 62 days earlier. The most common destinations in that window were Santa Barbara (7 landings), Telluride (5) and Teterboro (3). The aircraft had been on the ground for about 35 days before this trip; its previous tracked landing was at Mesa on October 6, 2026, after a 1-hour-5-minute, 414-nautical-mile flight from Santa Barbara. Earlier that day it had flown Seattle to Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara to Seattle.
The G700 has a range of 7,750 nm, a top speed of Mach 0.935, a 51,000-foot ceiling and seats 12 to 19 passengers. It was delivered in early 2024; N540W is the sixth of Winfrey's aircraft to carry that registration. The aircraft is now parked at Teterboro.
