Michael Jordan appears to have taken delivery of a Gulfstream G650ER.
The jet with the Jumpman logo was filmed at Palm Beach International Airport in Florida.
The G650ER is worth around $65 million (around €59 million) and is also popular with other billionaires.
Michael Jordan appears to have taken delivery of a new private jet worth around $65 million (€59 million).
A video uploaded to Tiktok on Monday shows a Gulfstream G650ER with an extravagant special paint job and the Jumpman logo on the tarmac at Palm Beach International Airport. The jet’s tail number, N236MJcontains the basketball legend’s initials.
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According to the Federal Aviation Administration database, it was registered last Tuesday to a company called MJ Air LLC. She is looked after by Jump Management – Jordan’s family office.
The G650ER is particularly popular with the world’s richest people. Other owners include Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, according to data from the flight tracking site JetSpy emerges.
It has a maximum range of about 14,000 kilometers, which is enough to get from Florida to Tokyo. With a top speed of almost 1000 kilometers per hour at an altitude of twelve kilometers, it is faster than any commercial aircraft.
Up to 19 passengers can sit in a G650ER and up to ten can sleep on board, depending on the furnishings that owners can customize. There’s also space for a private bedroom, but it’s unclear exactly how the interior of Jordan’s jet is configured.
Jordan – the first athlete to become a billionaire – is loud „Bloombergs“ Billionaires Index estimated to be worth 3.5 billion dollars (3.2 billion euros).
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He built his fortune on a licensing agreement with Nike that began in the 1980s and led to his eponymous shoe brand. The former Chicago Bulls player became the second Black majority owner in the NBA when he took a stake in the Charlotte Hornets in 2010 before selling it last year.
His new jet is an upgrade from his Gulfstream G550, which also sports an eye-catching livery. It’s unclear whether Jordan intends to continue operating the G550 alongside the G650ER. Jordan’s G650ER has flown 13 times in the past two weeks, according to JetSpy data. Most of these flights appear to be related to the extradition process.
In a video, which was shared on an aviation subreddit late Wednesday eveningthe plane can be seen landing at Talladega Airport in the US state of Alabama. It also shows Jordan getting off the private jet.
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The plane landed in Talladega a few hours before the YellaWood 500 NASCAR race at the track there. Jordan is the owner of NASCAR team 23XI Racing and was photographed at the race.
According to the data, its previous flights produced 74 tons of carbon dioxide – about five times annual emissions of an average American.
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