Gulfstream’s G650ER set two more city-pair records while flying around the world with just one stop. On the first leg, N650GA took off from Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y., on February 1 with three passengers and four crewmembers: pilots Mike Jarrett, Ray Wellington and Scott Curtis and flight attendant Melody Thorne. It flew 6,939 nm eastbound to Beijing International Airport, landing the following day after a 13-hour, 20-minute flight and averaging a speed of Mach 0.87.

On February 6 and with the same crew, the 7,500-nm-range twinjet then flew eastbound from Beijing to Savannah, accomplishing the 6,572-nm mission in exactly 12 hours and logging an average speed of Mach 0.89. The G650 landed both times with higher-than-required NBAA IFR fuel reserves, according to Gulfstream. Pending approval by the U.S. National Aeronautic Association, the city-pair records will be sent to the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale in Switzerland for recognition as world records.

“There isn’t another business jet capable of this mission,” said Gulfstream senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing Scott Neal. “This flight proves just how powerful a machine the G650ER is. We promised customers an aircraft that could take them farther faster than any other [and] we delivered.”

In addition to the two pending records, the G650ER set two speed records during flight testing last year. It flew from Los Angeles to Melbourne, Australia, in 14 hours 58 minutes. The G650ER then flew from Hong Kong to Teterboro, N.J., in 14 hours 7 minutes.

The two pending record flights also followed an 8,010-nm flight on January 22 involving a Gulfstream G650ER owned by Wynn Resorts CEO Steve Wynn. That flight traveled from Singapore Changi Airport to McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas in 14 hours and 32 minutes at an average speed of Mach 0.85.