Heavy Jets
Gulfstream G550
The long-serving intercontinental workhorse — New York to Dubai or London to Los Angeles with fourteen passengers, and the best availability of any aircraft in its class.
G550
Mission profile
The long-serving intercontinental workhorse — New York to Dubai or London to Los Angeles with fourteen passengers, and the best availability of any aircraft in its class.
Typical routes
- New York → Dubai
- London → Los Angeles
- Palm Beach → Zurich
- Miami → Madrid
Verified specifications
The numbers, with their conditions attached.
A manufacturer's headline range assumes a lightly loaded aircraft at long-range cruise. Publishing that figure beside a seat count is how buyers get misled, so we publish both and plan against the realistic one.
- Typical seats
- 14
- Maximum seats
- 19
- Full-cabin range
- 6,200 nm
- Manufacturer max range
- 6,700 nm
- Max cruise
- 488 kt
- Planning cruise
- 470 kt
- Ceiling
- 51,000 ft
- Cabin length
- 43 ft 11 in
- Cabin height
- 6 ft 0 in
- Cabin width
- 7 ft 0 in
- Baggage
- Confirmed per aircraft at quote
- Crew
- Two pilots and a cabin attendant
About that range figure
Mach 0.80 with eight passengers, four crew and NBAA IFR reserves.
For planning a real trip with the cabin filled, we use 6,200 nm. That is the number the configurator on this site checks against before it recommends this aircraft for your route.
Worth knowing
- Operators routinely fly this aircraft at Mach 0.83 to 0.85 on sectors under twelve hours; the 6,700 nm figure assumes Mach 0.80.
- The widely-quoted 226 cu ft baggage figure could not be confirmed against a primary source, so we confirm it per tail number rather than publish it.
Confirmed at quote rather than published
We could not verify the following against a primary source, so we do not publish a figure for it — we confirm it for your specific aircraft when the trip is quoted: baggage volume. Publishing an unsourced number is how the previous version of this site ended up with eight inaccurate specification sets.
Common questions
How many passengers does the Gulfstream G550 seat?
14 in a typical charter configuration, with a maximum certified capacity of 19. The typical figure is the comfortable one and is what we quote against.
What is the range of the Gulfstream G550?
The manufacturer figure is 6,700 nautical miles — Mach 0.80 with eight passengers, four crew and NBAA IFR reserves. For planning a trip with a full cabin, use approximately 6,200 nautical miles.
How fast is the Gulfstream G550?
Maximum cruise is 488 knots true airspeed (Mach 0.885 maximum, Mach 0.80–0.85 in cruise). We plan flight times at 470 knots, which is closer to how the aircraft is actually flown in service.
Can you stand up in the Gulfstream G550?
Yes — the cabin is 6 ft 0 in high, so most passengers can stand and move about normally.
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- 13
- Range
- 5,500 nm
- Cruise
- 516 kt
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- Seats
- 14
- Range
- 7,000 nm
- Cruise
- 516 kt
Bombardier Global 5000
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- Seats
- 13
- Range
- 4,900 nm
- Cruise
- 504 kt
Gulfstream G650
The benchmark ultra-long-range charter aircraft — New York to Tokyo, Los Angeles to London or Dubai to New York nonstop, in the widest cabin Gulfstream builds.
- Seats
- 14
- Range
- 6,500 nm
- Cruise
- 516 kt
Gulfstream G450
The value heavy jet — comfortable transcontinental flying and marginal transatlantic missions at meaningfully lower rates than a G550.
- Seats
- 13
- Range
- 4,100 nm
- Cruise
- 488 kt
Ask about the Gulfstream G550
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- No list, no reseller, no follow-up you did not ask for
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