Most expensive private jets owned by billionaires and celebrities in 2023

The largest and most expensive private jets are owned by billionaires and celebrities around the world, mostly from the United States.

Who are the owners of Gulfstream G650? Who owns a Boeing BBJ or a Bombardier jet? Celebrity Private Jet Owners and business aviation.

Let’s dive in with the list

Bill Gates

• Registration: N887WM
• Registration: N194WM
• Type: Gulfstream G650
• Year: 2018
• Seats: 23
• Value: US$ 70 million
• Owners company: Microsoft

Bill Gates owns 4 private jets, and two Gulfstream G650ER private jets, N887WM and the N194WM. Both jets have the same colour scheme. Both were built in 2018. They replaced 2 (relatively old) Bombardier BD-700s.

He also owns 2 Bombardier Challenger 350 private jets through a Net Jets program. These are the N754QS and the N769QS. These jets also have the same colour scheme.

Jeff Bezos

• Registration: N271DV
• Type: Gulfstream G650ER
• Year: 2015
• Seats: 18

The Gulfstream G650ER is a twin-engine business jet aeroplane. It is produced by Gulfstream Aerospace. The ER stands for Extended Range. The plane has a range of 7,500 nautical miles/13,890 kilometres.

The new build price for a Gulfstream G650ER is approximately US$70 million. But customization can quickly increase the price by several million.

Elon Musk Gulfstream private jet

• Registration: N628TS
• Type: Gulfstream G650ER
• Year: 2015
• Seats: 12
• Owners company: Tesla Motors

The G650ER is a key model in Gulfstream’s line-up and has a starting price of ₦35 billion, and it likely costs Musk more. It’s also the largest Gulfstream business jet – although, the upcoming G700 is soon to snatch that title away.

Musk is the owner of a Gulfstream G650 ER private jet with registration N628TS. The Jet was built in 2015 and delivered to Musk in 2016.

ER stands for Extended Range, meaning a nonstop reach of the industry’s highest performance long-range business aircraft of 7,500 nautical miles/13,890 kilometres.

Elon Musk jet is formally registered to Falcon Landing LLC, which name refers to Elon Musk’s Falcon 9 space vehicle.

Musk previously used a 1999 Dassault Falcon 900 B with registration N900SX (Space X).

He now also owns a Gulfstream G550 with registration N272BG and a mother G550 with registration N502SX.

All aircraft are registered to Falcon Landing.

Larry Ellison

• Registration: N817GS
• Type: Gulfstream G650
• Year: 2015
• Seats: 18
• Owners Company: Oracle

Larry Ellison is the owner of a Gulfstream G650 private jet. Ellison is co-founder and chief executive of Oracle Corporation, one of the world’s largest enterprise software companies.

In 2016 Ellison holds a 22.5% stake in Oracle, which makes him one of the richest people in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$ 52 billion. He owns a large yacht named Musashi

David Geffen

• Registration: N221DG
• Type: GULFSTREAM G650
• Year: 2014
• Seats: 12
• Owners Company: Geffen Records

David Geffen is the owner of a Gulfstream G650 with registration N221DG. Geffen is an American record executive, film producer, theatrical producer and philanthropist.

David Geffen is known for creating Asylum Records in 1970 and Geffen Records in 1980. Geffen Records launched the careers of the Eagles, Aerosmith and Guns N’ Roses. His net worth is estimated at US$ 6.5 billion.

He owns one of the World’s largest yachts, named Rising Sun.

Dennis Gillings

• Registration: N912GG
• Type: GULFSTREAM G650
• Year: 2016
• Seats: 12
• Owners Company: Quintiles

Dennis Gillings is the owner of a Gulfstream G650 jet, with registration N912GG.

Dennis Gilling is the founder of Quintiles. Quintiles was incorporated as a privately held company in 1982, and over the past years, has grown from that small collection of statisticians and college students into the world’s largest provider of biopharmaceutical services, a FORTUNE 500 company with nearly 35,000 employees conducting business in 100 countries.

Dennis Gillings took Quintiles public through its first Initial Public Offering (IPO) in 1994 and then led a leveraged buyout to take the company private again in 2003. Quintiles remained a private company for 10 years until its second IPO in 2013. The net worth of Dennis Gillings is estimated at US$ 1 billion.

Laurene Powell Jobs

• Registration: N2N
• Type: Gulfstream G650
• Year: 2014
• Seats: 23
• Owners company: Apple

The Gulfstream G650 jet with registration N2N is owned by Steve Jobs’s widow Laurene Powell Jobs. Steve Jobs is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. Steve Jobs died in 2011 of pancreatic cancer.

His widow Laurene Powell Jobs inherited 5.5 million shares in Apple, worth US$ 7 billion and a 7% stake in The Walt Disney company worth US$ 9 billion. Laurene Powell Jobs owns a large yacht named Venus.