Goldman Sachs Gulfstream G650ER N650WS Lands at Teterboro After 7-Hour 46-Minute Flight From Berlin
Why It MattersFrequent transatlantic hops by a single large-cabin jet show how corporate flight departments concentrate demand on a few ultra-long-range types and on Teterboro as the New York area's primary private airport.
Gulfstream G650ER N650WS, linked to Goldman Sachs, touched down at Teterboro on October 20 after a 7-hour 46-minute crossing from Berlin Brandenburg Airport. It had departed Berlin at 08:24 UTC. The great-circle distance is 3,451 nautical miles, about 3,971 miles; the aircraft averaged a ground speed of 444 knots, peaked at 565 knots and reached a highest altitude of 43,025 feet. Celebplanes estimates the flight burned about 3,650 US gallons of jet fuel and produced roughly 35.1 metric tons of CO2. The G650ER has a range of 7,500 nautical miles and a ceiling of 51,000 feet, so the flight used 46 percent of its maximum range.
It was the aircraft's second transatlantic trip in two days: on October 19 it flew Teterboro to Berlin over the same distance in 6 hours 45 minutes. Before that, N650WS flew Boston to Teterboro on October 18 (51 minutes), Augusta to Boston on October 17 (1 hour 34 minutes) and Oakland to Augusta on October 16 (4 hours 18 minutes). The other aircraft in the Goldman Sachs fleet, N280WS, flew Augusta to Teterboro on October 16 in 1 hour 29 minutes and Teterboro to Augusta on October 14 in 1 hour 40 minutes.
This was the 11th landing by a Goldman Sachs aircraft at Teterboro in the 30 days before the flight; the previous one was on October 18, also by N650WS. The most common destinations in that period were Teterboro (11 landings), Dulles (4) and Augusta (2). Berlin Brandenburg's longest runway is 13,123 feet; Teterboro's is 6,997 feet. Other tracked aircraft arriving at Teterboro in the preceding 24 hours included a Bombardier Global 7500 linked to Jay-Z and Beyoncé, a Dassault Falcon 2000EX linked to Jimmy Haslam, a Gulfstream V linked to Caesars, a Cessna Citation Latitude linked to Truist Financial, a Dassault Falcon 7X linked to the Arizona Cardinals and a Gulfstream G600 linked to Antonio Gracias.
Goldman Sachs is headquartered at 200 West Street in New York City, and Teterboro is the primary private aviation airport serving the area. No public event or meeting tied to Goldman Sachs in New York on the day of the flight has been found, and the bank has not commented on the purpose of the trip.
