The jet's tail number, N236MJ , includes the basketball legend's initials.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration's database, it was registered last Tuesday to a firm called MJ Air LLC, in the care of Jump Management — Jordan's family office.
The G650ER is especially popular among the world's richest people. Other owners include Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg, according to data from JetSpy.
A Gulfstream G650 private jet (not Jordan's) pictured in flight.
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It has a maximum range of 8,630 miles, which is enough to reach Tokyo from Florida. With a top speed of Mach 0.925 — or 610 mph at its 41,000-feet cruising altitude — it's faster than any commercial airliner.
Up to 19 passengers can sit on a G650ER, and up to 10 can sleep on board, depending on the layout, which owners can customize. It also has space for its own bedroom, but it's unclear exactly how the interior of Jordan's jet is configured.
Jordan — the first athlete to become a billionaire when he reached that status in 2014 — is worth an estimated $3.5 billion, according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index .
He built his fortune on a licensing agreement with Nike that started in the 1980s and led to his eponymous shoe brand. The former Chicago Bulls player became the NBA's second Black majority owner when he took a stake in the Charlotte Hornets in 2010, before selling it last year.
His new jet is an upgrade from his Gulfstream G550, which also has a flamboyant livery. It's unclear whether Jordan intends to keep operating the G550 alongside the G650ER.
According to JetSpy data, Jordan's G650ER has flown 13 times in the past two weeks. Most of those flights appear to be related to the delivery process.
JetSpy data shows that two of those flights were journeys from Palm Beach to Talladega, Alabama, and back again on Sunday, October 6.
The plane landed in Talladega a few hours before the city's race track hosted the YellaWood 500 NASCAR race. Jordan owns the 23XI Racing NASCAR team and was photographed at the race.
The data suggests these flights produced 74 metric tons of carbon dioxide — about five times the average American's yearly emissions.
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