Who flies what
The private jets of billionaires, pop stars, athletes, royals and companies — 55 aircraft worth a reported $4.2B between them. Public, widely reported information only; we don’t track anyone.
Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei
Boeing 747-8 BBJ · $600M reported
The Sultan's 747-8 is regularly cited as the most expensive private aircraft in the world, with figures around $600 million including a completion featuring gold-plated fittings and nearly 5,000 square feet of cabin. A qualified pilot, he has been photographed at the controls, including arriving at an ASEAN summit flying the jumbo himself.
Qatar Amiri Flight (State of Qatar)
Boeing 747-8 BBJ · $400M reported
Delivered to Qatar's royal flight in 2012, this 747-8 BBJ was gifted to the United States in May 2025, a transfer reported at around $400 million that prompted debate in Washington over foreign gifts. Stripped to bare metal in Texas and rebuilt with secure communications, it became the interim Air Force One in July 2026.
Alisher Usmanov
Airbus A340-300 · $400M reported
Named after Usmanov's father and registered with his initials, the four-engined A340 was reported to have cost $238 million plus about $170 million in fit-out, making it one of the most expensive private aircraft ever. It was deregistered from the Isle of Man in March 2022 after sanctions and was last tracked in Tashkent.
Roman Abramovich
Boeing 787-8 BBJ · $350M reported
Abramovich's earlier 767-300ER earned the nickname 'The Bandit' for its Zorro-mask paint around the cockpit; the 787-8 that replaced it in 2021 kept the look and was reported to cost around $350 million after completion. In 2022 a US federal judge authorised the seizure of the 787 and a G650ER under sanctions, though the aircraft were beyond US reach.
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
Boeing 747-400 · $220M reported
For years the only private individual with a 747-400, Alwaleed bought the ex-Air China jumbo in 2003 and fitted it with a 14-seat dining room, prayer room and a throne-like armchair. He famously ordered an Airbus A380 'Flying Palace' in 2007 but sold the order before delivery. The 747 was reported in 2023 to have flown footballer Neymar to Riyadh for Al Hilal.
Drake
Boeing 767-200ER · $185M reported
A 1996-built 767 that once flew for a Saudi VIP operator, Air Drake came to the rapper through a partnership with Canadian freight airline Cargojet, which is reported to have provided the aircraft in exchange for promotion. The sky-blue livery and interior touches were designed with the late Virgil Abloh, and the cabin seats around 45 in an all-lounge configuration.
Kim Kardashian
Gulfstream G650ER · $150M reported
Kardashian is reported to have paid around $95 million for the G650ER and spent a further sum on an all-cashmere, light-wood interior, with total figures of roughly $150 million widely quoted. House rules reported by her family include no spray tans on board and branded slippers at every seat.
Mukesh Ambani (Reliance)
Boeing BBJ 737-9 (MAX 9) · $150M reported
India's first BBJ MAX 9 arrived in August 2024 after a completion in Switzerland, with the total reported at about $150 million. The Reliance fleet has also included an Airbus ACJ319, two Dassault Falcon 900EXs, a Global 6000 and a Global Express, making it one of Asia's largest family-controlled corporate fleets.
Donald Trump (Trump Organization)
Boeing 757-200 · $100M reported
Built in 1991 for Denmark's Sterling Airways and later owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the 757 was bought by Trump in 2010 and refitted with 24-karat gold fixtures and seating for 43. Its 2016 campaign appearances gave it the 'Trump Force One' nickname; it was stored during his first term and restored in 2021.
Oprah Winfrey
Gulfstream G700 · $80M reported
Winfrey has been a jet owner since a Gulfstream IV in 1991 and has cycled through a Bombardier Global Express XRS, a G550 and a G650ER before reportedly taking a G700 in 2025. She has famously said the jet was the one purchase that told her she had truly made it.
Kylie Jenner
Bombardier Global 7500 · $73M reported
The tail number references her 10 August birthday and the jet is registered to a company named after her trademarked 'Rise and Shine' catchphrase. The pink-accented cabin became a social-media fixture, and a 2022 post about a reported 17-minute hop between Los Angeles-area airports made Kylie Air a lightning rod in the debate over short private flights.
Cristiano Ronaldo
Gulfstream G650 · $73M reported
Ronaldo unveiled a Gulfstream G650 in late 2024, reported at around $73 million, after selling the Gulfstream G200 he had flown since 2015. The airframe carries his CR7 branding and a silhouette of his trademark celebration, and it commutes between Riyadh, Lisbon and Madrid.
Bernard Arnault (LVMH)
Bombardier Global 7500 · $73M reported
LVMH sold its Global 7500 in 2022 after French Twitter accounts such as 'I Fly Bernard' began publicising every flight, with Arnault saying that by renting jets 'no one can see where I go'. The episode helped push the French jet-tracking and private-jet-tax debate into the mainstream. He had earlier flown a Dassault Falcon 7X.
Lakshmi Mittal
Bombardier Global 7500 · $73M reported
The ArcelorMittal chairman is reported to have replaced a Gulfstream G550 with a UK-registered Global 7500 in 2021, shuttling between Geneva, Luxembourg, London and Mumbai. Mittal was long listed among Europe's most active private-jet users.
Travis Scott
Embraer Lineage 1000 · $72M reported
Scott's jet is one of only about 28 Lineage 1000s ever built, a business-jet conversion of the Embraer E190 airliner. Registered to Cactus Jack Airlines, it wears a custom livery and was widely covered as a 'his-and-hers' pairing with Kylie Jenner's Global 7500.
Elon Musk
Gulfstream G650ER · $70M reported
The tail number encodes his 28 June birthday, and the G650ER became the most-tracked business jet in the world after a student-run account began posting its movements in 2020. Musk also operates two Gulfstream G550s and was reported to have ordered a G700 in 2022. The jet's public tracking led to a 2022 policy change on Twitter/X that banned real-time location sharing.
Bill Gates
Gulfstream G650ER (two) · $70M reported
Gates is reported to own two G650ERs, both 2018 builds based at Boeing Field in Seattle, plus access to Challenger 350s via a NetJets arrangement. He has called private flying his 'guilty pleasure' and says he offsets his emissions by funding direct-air-capture and sustainable fuel ventures.
Jack Ma
Gulfstream G650ER · $70M reported
The Alibaba founder is reported to fly a Cayman-registered G650ER built in 2020, replacing an earlier Gulfstream G550. Alibaba disclosed in 2015 that it bought a Gulfstream for Ma's business use, one of the first Chinese tech firms to do so publicly.
Mark Zuckerberg
Gulfstream G650ER · $70M reported
Meta's proxy filings show the company covers Zuckerberg's private flights on security grounds, with more than $2.3 million in 2022 alone. He is reported to have added a Gulfstream G700 in 2024, and both jets wear a Meta-inspired blue-and-white scheme.
Michael Jordan
Gulfstream G650ER · $70M reported
Jordan's registration reads like a resume: 23 for his jersey, 6 for his championships, MJ for his initials. The tail number moved from his elephant-print Gulfstream G550 to a new G650ER in late 2024, with the paint referencing the 1988 Air Jordan 3 sneaker.
Apple Inc. (Tim Cook)
Gulfstream G650 · $70M reported
Since 2017 Apple's board has required Tim Cook to use private aircraft for all travel, personal included, 'in the interests of security and efficiency', and its proxy statements disclose the cost each year (about $767,000 in 2022). Steve Jobs was famously given a Gulfstream V by Apple's board in 1999 as a thank-you for returning to the company.
Jeff Bezos
Gulfstream G650ER · $65M reported
Bezos has owned two G650ERs through a Seattle holding company and was reported in late 2024 to be selling the older one (a 2015 airframe) for just under $39 million after taking delivery of a new Gulfstream G700 reported at around $80 million. His arrival at the COP26 climate summit by Gulfstream drew wide media attention in 2021.
Larry Ellison
Gulfstream G650 · $65M reported
The Oracle founder, a licensed pilot who also owns vintage military aircraft, has flown a G650 registered to a company called Wing and a Prayer since 2015. Ellison once famously battled San Jose's night-flight curfew over his Gulfstream V and won an exemption in 2001.
Nike Inc.
Gulfstream G650ER · $65M reported
Nike's Gulfstream is famous with plane-spotters for its shoebox-orange livery: an Air Max profile on the tail, track spikes painted under the wings and the original Air Pegasus on the winglets. The 2019 G650ER replaced a G550 that wore the same registration, a nod to the company's 1972 founding year.
Jim Carrey
Gulfstream V · $59M reported
Carrey is reported to have bought a Gulfstream V in 2006 and, unusually for a celebrity, to make it available for charter at around $8,000 per hour when he is not using it. The cabin was reported to include a bar and a games room.
Gautam Adani
Bombardier Global 6500 · $53M reported
Adani's Global 6500 wears the group logo and can fly Ahmedabad to London nonstop; his Karnavati Aviation unit also operates Legacy 650s, a Challenger 605 and helicopters. He has been reported to have added a BBJ 737 MAX 8 and to have ordered six Pilatus PC-24s for executives.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Gulfstream G650 · $50M reported
Mayweather has posted tours of a Gulfstream G650 with his name across the fuselage since around 2014, and has said he bought it as a birthday present to himself. The jet is held through operators rather than in his own name, so public registry records do not show it directly.
Steven Spielberg
Boeing Business Jet (737-700) · $50M reported
Spielberg acquired a BBJ in 2006 and was reported by The Hollywood Reporter to share its use with DreamWorks partner Jeffrey Katzenberg. Later reports also link him to a Gulfstream G650ER based in Los Angeles, and he was cited in the same coverage as an early Global Express customer.
Michael Bloomberg
Dassault Falcon 900EX (three) · $45M reported
Bloomberg, himself a pilot, has said he owns three Falcon 900s at about $45 million each and roughly $3 million a year each to run. His hangar has also been reported to hold a Pilatus PC-24, a King Air and a Cessna 182.
Céline Dion
Bombardier Global Express XRS · $42M reported
Dion is widely reported to fly a Canadian-built Global Express XRS with six sleeping berths and a small cinema, valued at around $42 million when new. She had earlier been reported to use a Boeing Business Jet during her Las Vegas residency years.
Taylor Swift
Dassault Falcon 7X · $40M reported
Swift sold her Dassault Falcon 900 in January 2024 amid intense scrutiny of her flight activity, leaving the three-engine Falcon 7X as her only jet. Her lawyers sent a cease-and-desist to a student who tracked her aircraft on social media, making her the face of the celebrity jet-tracking debate during the Eras Tour.
Jay-Z and Beyoncé
Bombardier Challenger 850 · $40M reported
Beyoncé is widely reported to have bought the Challenger 850, a business-jet version of the 50-seat CRJ200 regional airliner, as a Father's Day gift for Jay-Z in 2012, with 'S. Carter' lettering on the fuselage. The couple have also been reported flying a Bombardier Global 7500 in recent years.
Mark Cuban
Gulfstream V · $40M reported
Cuban bought his $40 million Gulfstream V by email in October 1999 without seeing it, which Guinness World Records logged as the largest e-commerce transaction ever. He later added a Gulfstream G550 and a Boeing 757 configured for the Dallas Mavericks, plus a 767 offered for charter.
Lewis Hamilton
Bombardier Challenger 605 · $23M reported
Hamilton's cherry-red Challenger, registered with his initials, became a paddock icon before he sold it in 2019, citing a wish to cut his carbon footprint; reports put the sale price at just under $9 million. The jet had earlier featured in the 2017 Paradise Papers over a VAT arrangement on its import.
Jackie Chan
Embraer Legacy 650 and Legacy 500 · $20M reported
Chan took delivery of a Legacy 650 in 2012 and became the first customer in China for the Legacy 500 in 2016, serving as a brand ambassador for Embraer. Both aircraft wear a red-and-gold dragon livery and his personal 'JC' logo.
Tom Cruise
Gulfstream IV · $20M reported
A licensed pilot since 1994, Cruise is widely reported to own a Gulfstream IV and a 1946 P-51 Mustang, the latter appearing in Top Gun: Maverick with Cruise at the controls. Reports of a Challenger 350 and a HondaJet in his hangar are less firmly confirmed.
Harrison Ford
Cessna Citation Sovereign · $18.5M reported
Ford flies his own 2009 Citation Sovereign and has crossed the Atlantic in a Pilatus PC-12 turboprop via Greenland and Iceland. His collection also includes a 1929 Waco biplane and an Aviat Husky, and he has volunteered for search-and-rescue flights with his helicopter.
Lionel Messi
Gulfstream V · $15M reported
Messi's 2004-built Gulfstream V has his number 10 on the tail and the names of his family members painted on the airstairs. French media reported the jet flew 52 times in three months of 2022, a figure that made him a recurring subject of European emissions coverage.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Boeing 767-200 · $15M reported
The Google co-founders bought a used Qantas 767 in 2005 for under $15 million and converted it into a 50-seat 'party plane', as Eric Schmidt reportedly described it. A deal with NASA let it base at Moffett Field next to the Googleplex in exchange for carrying scientific instruments and $1.3 million a year in fees.
Max Verstappen
Dassault Falcon 900EX · $15M reported
Verstappen bought Richard Branson's former Falcon 900EX in late 2020 and painted it matt black and orange; other drivers were reported to hitch rides on it between races. In 2025 he was reported to have upgraded to a Dassault Falcon 8X.
Hugh Hefner (Playboy Enterprises)
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 · $5.5M reported
Playboy took its all-black DC-9 straight from the factory in 1969 for $5.5 million, with a white bunny on the tail, a discotheque and an oval bed in Hefner's rear salon. Flight attendants known as 'Jet Bunnies' were trained by Continental. It was sold to a Venezuelan airline in 1975 and ended its days flying passengers for Aeromexico.
Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway)
Dassault Falcon 20 · $0.9M reported
After years of mocking executives for their corporate jets, Buffett bought a used Falcon 20 for $850,000 in 1986 and named it 'The Indefensible' (Charlie Munger had proposed 'The Aberration'). He later traded up and renamed the jet 'The Indispensable', then bought the whole of NetJets in 1998 for $725 million.
Frank Sinatra
Learjet 23 · $0.5M reported
Sinatra was among the very first Learjet buyers, taking a Learjet 23 in 1965 and naming it after his daughter. It flew the Rat Pack between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and Elvis reportedly borrowed it to elope to Vegas in 1967. It made the Learjet the original celebrity status symbol.
Elvis Presley
Convair 880 · $0.3M reported
Elvis bought a retired Delta Convair 880 for $250,000 in 1975 and spent more than $800,000 turning it into a 'flying Graceland' with a queen bed, gold-plated seatbelt buckles and 52-speaker sound system. He also owned a Lockheed JetStar, 'Hound Dog II'. Both are on display at Graceland in Memphis.
John Travolta
Boeing 707-138B
Travolta, a type-rated airline-class pilot, bought an ex-Qantas 707 in 1998, painted it in 1960s Qantas colours and flew it on a 2002 world tour as the airline's ambassador. He pledged the jet to Australia's HARS museum in 2017, and it was dismantled and shipped there in 2026. He also flies a Bombardier Challenger, a Falcon 900 and an Eclipse very light jet.
United States Air Force (Presidential Airlift)
Boeing VC-25A (747-200B)
The two VC-25As have flown presidents since 1990 and are over 30 years old. Their 747-8 replacements, the VC-25Bs, have slipped to 2028-2029 deliveries, so a modified ex-Qatari 747-8 known as the VC-25B Bridge entered service as an interim Air Force One on 1 July 2026. 'Air Force One' is technically a callsign, used for any Air Force aircraft carrying the president.
UK Government / Royal Air Force
Airbus A330 Voyager (KC2)
Britain's VIP jet is an air-to-air refuelling tanker that received a £10 million VIP cabin in 2016 and can still refuel fighters. A 2020 repaint into a white-and-Union-Flag scheme cost about £900,000 and made headlines for weeks. Ministers and royals share it; when unneeded it goes back to tanker duty.
French Republic (Escadron de Transport 60)
Dassault Falcon 7X (plus Falcon 900s and an A330-200)
France's VIP squadron at Villacoublay has flown Dassault Falcons since the early 1970s and currently operates two Falcon 7Xs and four Falcon 900s alongside an Airbus A330-200 registered F-RARF for long-haul presidential travel. The unit marked its 80th anniversary in 2025, and the government has said it will standardise the Falcon fleet by 2028.
German Federal Government (Flugbereitschaft)
Airbus A350-900
Germany ordered three A350-900s in 2019 for a reported €1.2 billion after a string of embarrassing breakdowns of its ageing A340s, including one that stranded Chancellor Merkel on the way to a G20 summit. The fully fitted 'Konrad Adenauer' was handed over in 2022, followed by 'Theodor Heuss' in 2023.
Government of Japan (JASDF)
Boeing 777-300ER
Japan retired its two government 747-400s in 2019 and replaced them with a pair of 777-300ERs carrying the Emperor and Prime Minister abroad. Each can also evacuate up to 140 citizens in an emergency, and one of the old jumbos was later offered for sale for around $28 million.
Walmart Inc.
Bombardier Learjet 40/45 fleet (plus Global and Gulfstream)
Walmart runs one of corporate America's largest flight departments from Rogers, Arkansas, reported at around a dozen jets dominated by Learjets that ferry store executives to towns with little airline service. The practice dates to founder Sam Walton, who piloted his own light aircraft to scout store sites.
Netflix Inc.
Gulfstream G550 (plus Praetor 600, Falcon 2000, King Air 350)
Netflix made headlines in 2022 with a corporate flight-attendant job posting paying up to $385,000, and in 2025 a spike in its jet activity was reported days before its bid for Warner Bros. Its fleet is reported to average about four flights a day, led by a Gulfstream G550.
NetJets (Berkshire Hathaway)
Fleet of 800+ jets (Citation, Phenom, Challenger, Global)
The world's largest private-jet operator, NetJets grew from 163 aircraft when Berkshire bought it in 1998 to more than 800 by late 2025, taking roughly 100 new deliveries a year. Its fractional model, launched in 1986, lets owners buy as little as a one-sixteenth share of a jet.
Tiger Woods
Gulfstream G550
Woods flies a 2008 G550 that spent its early years in the NetJets fleet before he bought it and re-registered it with his initials. It is operated for him by Executive Jet Management, and golf media routinely watch its movements for clues about whether he will play a tournament.
Richard Branson
Dassault Falcon 7X
Branson's Virgin Group flew a Falcon 900EX nicknamed 'Galactic Girl' for years before selling it to Max Verstappen in 2020; he is now reported to use a Falcon 7X. His aircraft collection has also included a Falcon 50EX and, of course, the Virgin Galactic mothership.
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