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- According to Austonia, Elon Musk bought a Gulfstream G700 recently.
- Musk's new jet is expected to replace his Gulfstream G650ER.
- Musk currently has four jets, three Gulstreams and one Dassault.
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Austonia, a Texas-based news site, reported that Austonia’s June report showed that the Texas-based news website Austonia had received 83 percent of these reports.Musk has placed an Order for the Gulfstream G700. It did not indicate when Musk bought the jet.
The G700, which was launchedHis replacement is expected to be in October 2019. current jetAccording to the report,, the G650ER.
Musk frequently travels in a private plane. Musk flew more than 150,000 kilometers on his G650ER in 2018. The Washington Post has flight records.
Musk and Tesla did not reply to Insider's requests for comment.
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But the G700's deliveries might be delayed by three to six months, as the Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA, continues to review the jet's software, per Flight Global.
Musk currently holds the following four jetsThree of them are manufactured by Gulfstream. Musk also owns a Dassault 900B. First jet he purchased. All of Musk's jets are registered to Falcon Landing LLC, a shell company with ties to Space X, the FAA registry shows.
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The G700 is expensive to operate. The operating costs of the G700 can run to $3.5 million if you fly it for 400 hours. Liberty Jet.According to the aviation site, fuel and engine overhaul are two of the most costly parts of operating a plane.
Musk is no stranger at these high operating expenses: His October 31 flight from Los Angeles to New Jersey on the G650ER cost him $14,829 in fuel costs. According to @ElonJet’s Twitter account, which tracks Musk's flights. The account shows that Musk was in the air approximately for four and a-half hours.
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The G700 is the "stretched" version of the G650, and aims to rival the Bombardier 7500 in size, per Bloomberg.It measures 109ft and 10in in length and 25ft and fivein in height. Gulfstream.
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The G700 has a cruising speed of Mach 0.925 — just under the speed of sound — per the same Gulfstream spec sheet above.
According to a Gulfstream press release from May,The G700 flew 7 hours 37 minutes from Georgia to Geneva in Switzerland at Mach 0.90.
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The G700's cabin is split into various sections including a lavatory, galley, forward seating, entertainment suite, and dining area, in addition to the stateroom and the en-suite bathroom, the jet's virtual tour shows.
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The stateroom is designed with either a single or double bed, as photos of the G700's interior show. The G700 has 20 windows, which allows ample light to stream into the jet's interior.
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You can see the virtual tour of the bathroom, which includes several compartments for toiletries or valuables, as well as a full-length mirror and leather-seat toilet.
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You can also get the G700. IndividualizedFor the bathroom to have a shower, as previously reported by Insider's Thomas Pallini.
At the aft end of the plane is a luggage compartment that measures 195 cubic feet. per Gulfstream.
