2026 Rankings: World's Most Expensive Private Jets, from Boeing BBJ 777-9 to Qatar's Air Force One Gift

The Boeing BBJ 777-9 is listed as the most expensive new private jet available to order in 2026, priced at approximately $453.6 million for an unfinished "green" aircraft, a figure set at its Dubai Airshow launch in December 2018. A completed interior fitted by specialists such as Jet Aviation would add roughly $100 million to that price. Boeing does not publish an official VIP price, and as of September 2026 no BBJ 777X has been delivered to a private customer, with the first 777-9 not expected before 2027. The shorter BBJ 777-8 carries a reference price of $442.8 million.

Airbus stopped publishing list prices after 2018, when its official schedule showed the A350-900 at $317.4 million and the A350-1000 at $366.5 million. The ACJ350, derived from the A350-900, offers 11,100 nautical miles (20,550 km) of range with 25 passengers, up to 22 hours nonstop, in a 270 m² cabin. The BBJ 787 had 13 examples in service by summer 2025; in 2019 an anonymous buyer ordered two BBJ 787-9s at a list price of $564 million total, or $282 million each before fit-out. The 787-9 offers a 249.7 m² cabin and 9,475 nautical miles of range with 25 passengers.

Among purpose-built business jets, the top of the market stands at $78 million. Bombardier lists the Global 8000 at that price; the aircraft entered service in December 2025 and offers a range of 8,000 nautical miles (14,816 km), a top speed of Mach 0.95, four living areas, and a cabin altitude of 2,691 feet at 41,000 feet. The Gulfstream G700, certified in 2024, is also priced at around $78 million, with a 17.35-metre cabin accommodating up to five living areas and 20 panoramic windows.

The most expensive aircraft currently in service is the Boeing 747-8 gifted by Qatar to the United States. Delivered new in April 2012 to Qatar Amiri Flight, it was accepted by the US in May 2025. Its replacement value is estimated at approximately $400 million, the price of a new 747-8, though market appraisals put its actual value at $100–125 million given its age. Converted in Texas by L3Harris, it made its first presidential flight on 1 July 2026. The cost of the conversion, reported to have far exceeded the aircraft's value, has not been officially confirmed.

Other notable aircraft include Roman Abramovich's Boeing 787-8, registered P4-BDL, valued at approximately $350 million in a June 2022 US Justice Department seizure warrant, alongside his Gulfstream G650ER valued at approximately $60 million. Saudi Prince Al-Walid bin Talal placed the first private order for an Airbus A380 at the 2007 Dubai Airshow at a reported price of around $310 million; the order was cancelled and removed from Airbus's books in 2015. Airbus's 2018 list price for the A380 was $445.6 million. Drake owns a Boeing 767-200ER, a 1996-built aircraft.

A large business jet costs $4,800–$6,900 per flight hour in variable expenses, plus $1–1.4 million annually in fixed costs including crew, separate from any acquisition price.

These figures reveal a market split into distinct tiers: converted widebody airliners bought green and outfitted separately, purpose-built business jets sold complete near $78 million, and previously-owned aircraft whose resale value can diverge sharply from replacement cost. The Qatar 747-8 illustrates the last case starkly — a $400 million replacement value against a $100–125 million market appraisal, with conversion costs reported to exceed the airframe's worth entirely.

The VIP widebody segment continues to price ahead of delivery: Boeing has not yet handed over a private BBJ 777X, and the $453.6 million figure dates to a 2018 airshow announcement rather than a current transaction, while Airbus has not published list prices since the same year. That gap between quoted and confirmed pricing is structural to large-cabin VIP conversions, where completion work is contracted separately from the green airframe and buyers negotiate privately.

What remains unresolved is the actual conversion cost of the Qatar-gifted aircraft and whether Boeing's 2027 delivery target for the first private 777-9 holds, both of which would give the clearest updated benchmarks for this tier of the market.