The one who actually flies it
Gulfstream IV · N808T
N808T is a Gulfstream IV, an older and smaller aeroplane than most of the metal on this board — a 1990s airframe that will still cross an ocean but does it with less range and more noise than the G650s that replaced it.
The relevant fact is who is in the left-hand seat. Cruise has held a multi-engine instrument rating since 1994 and flies himself, which on this roster is unusual: most of these aircraft are crewed by professional pilots for owners who sit behind them. He also keeps piston aircraft, including a wartime fighter, which is a rather different hobby from owning a jet.
Our own log is the odd part. We have caught this aircraft airborne only once, and the height it reached was low — a few thousand feet, nothing like the flight levels where a Gulfstream is supposed to live.
There is a mundane and probably correct reading of that. A jet does not always climb: a short positioning hop, a maintenance flight, a circuit or two, or a leg cut short by weather all stay low. It is a good demonstration of what this kind of data actually is. We can tell you an aeroplane was in the sky and roughly how high it got. Everything past that is inference, and this page tries not to make any.
What we have actually seen: picked up airborne
1 time since we started
logging on 14 July 2026, most
recently 21 July, at up to
6,425 ft.
Every other jet on the board is below.