Boxers With Private Jets: What the Registry Actually Shows

In April 2026, Tyson Fury beat Arslanbek Makhmudov in London for a reported £18.6 million. Then he walked through London City Airport and boarded a scheduled Loganair flight home to the Isle of Man.

Fourteen months earlier, Jake Paul had tied a red bow on a Bombardier jet and captioned the video “Went global cause I’m global.” The FAA record behind that jet tells a less glossy story: the airframe was built in 1999.

That gap is the real picture of boxers with private jets. This guide covers every fighter with a documented aircraft, checked against the FAA registry where one exists, plus the champions who fly commercial and the one jet that has quietly left Floyd Mayweather’s companies.

Which Boxers Own a Private Jet

Very few. Boxing produces some of the biggest single paydays in sport, yet of the fighters in this guide, only Jake Paul has a jet that traces to a current registration.

Jake Paul: The “Global” Is a 1999 Global Express

Jake Paul announced his first jet on February 12, 2025, a few months after his fight with Mike Tyson. TMZ described a dark oak and white cabin, beige seats that recline flat, TVs, and a flight attendant on board.

Simple Flying later identified the aircraft as a Bombardier Global Express XRS operating as N801AD. FlightAware lists N801AD as a 1999 Bombardier BD-700-1A10 owned by Paul Air LLC of San Juan, Puerto Rico, where Paul lives, and the page carries a block on public tracking requested by the owner.

Bombardier Global ExpressN69JP (formerly N801AD) · serial 9029 · Paul Air LLC

Current · active

Built1999

Registered as N69JPSeptember 2, 2025

Range6,500 NM at Mach 0.80

Passengers12 to 16 typical

Engines2x Rolls-Royce BR710

Pre-owned market range~$7M to $12M (type average)

The FAA file adds the detail nobody reported. N801AD no longer appears in it. Paul Air LLC instead holds a 1999 BD-700-1A10, serial number 9029, under a new mark, N69JP, issued September 2, 2025. The initials are hard to miss.

The year matters more than the tail number. The FAA type code BD-700-1A10 covers the whole family, but Bombardier did not announce the improved XRS until October 2003. A jet built in 1999 left the factory as an original Global Express.

That does not make it a small airplane. The original Global Express family was designed for a range of 6,500 NM at Mach 0.80 and a 51,000-foot ceiling, which is enough to cross the Atlantic with fuel to spare.

It does change the price. Simple Flying puts pre-owned Global Express listings at roughly $7 million to $12 million, and operating costs near $1.78 million a year at 200 flight hours. Paul’s actual purchase price has never been published.

Floyd Mayweather: Air Mayweather 2 Has a New Registered Owner

Mayweather is the boxer most associated with private jets, and the one whose numbers are most inflated. He has been credited with a $50 million-plus Gulfstream G650 since 2014, yet no G650 registration has ever been traced to him.

What the registry did show was a Gulfstream IV, N305DG, built in 1990 and registered to TBE Aviation LLC on July 19, 2024. He called it Air Mayweather 2. Our full Floyd Mayweather private jet guide covers its livery and history.

Gulfstream IV "Air Mayweather 2"N305DG · serial 1139 · now Aerobeauty LLC

Transferred · January 2026

Built1990

Registered to TBE AviationJuly 19, 2024

New registrantAerobeauty LLC, January 3, 2026

Range4,220 NM

Max speedMach 0.88

Engines2x Rolls-Royce Tay 611-8

The October 2026 FAA file lists N305DG with a new owner, Aerobeauty LLC of Santa Fe Springs, California, on a certificate issued January 3, 2026. His other Gulfstream IV, N151SD, has been registered to Aviation Company Inc of Cheyenne, Wyoming, since June 2, 2025.

The timing lines up with Mayweather’s own lawsuit. His May 2026 complaint, as reported by Celebrity Net Worth, says he signed an FAA bill of sale for the jet on behalf of TBE Aviation in November 2025, with the purchaser field left blank and consideration recorded as “$1.00 & OVC.”

The same filing says $6.5 million of a loan went toward buying the jet. Those are allegations in his suit against former associates, not findings. What the register does establish is narrower: as of October 9, 2026, no aircraft is registered to TBE Aviation, to Michigan Appearances LLC, or to anyone named Mayweather.

Canelo Álvarez: The Embraer Legacy 500

Canelo flies to his fights in his own jet, and he shows it. In November 2021, Mediotiempo reported his arrival in Las Vegas for the Caleb Plant fight aboard it, illustrated with his own Instagram posts.

Mexican outlets identify the aircraft as an Embraer Legacy 500. Mediotiempo cites a $18.4 million price from a comparison site and says he reportedly paid $20 million, but neither figure comes from a sale record.

Embraer Legacy 500Registration not publicly confirmed · Saúl "Canelo" Álvarez

Reported · 2021-present

First shown2021, on his Instagram

Range3,125 NM with 4 passengers

PassengersUp to 12

Engines2x Honeywell HTF7500E

Type in service sinceOctober 2014

Reported price$18.4M to $20M (unverified)

The Legacy 500 is a midsize jet with fly-by-wire controls. With eight passengers it still covers 2,948 NM, enough to reach Las Vegas or New York nonstop from his home in Guadalajara.

Reports describe leather seats, a full bathroom, entertainment screens, a galley, and a small rest area. We could not match the jet to a registration, so treat its tail number as unknown rather than any of the Gulfstream marks that circulate with his name.

Manny Pacquiao: A Helicopter, and a Jet That Was Never His

Pacquiao’s only confirmed aircraft is a helicopter. In May 2012, while a congressman for Sarangani, he bought a second-hand Bell 206 for US$430,000, or 18 million pesos, according to his office as reported by PhilBoxing.

Bell 206 JetRangerPhilippine registration not published · bought second-hand

Bought 2012

AcquiredMay 2012

PriceUS$430,000 (PHP 18M)

Seats5

Engine1x Allison 250 turboshaft

Main useConstituency travel, Sarangani

He described the Bell JetRanger as a gift to himself, and used it to reach parts of the province that are hard to get to by road. A light single-engine helicopter suits that job far better than any business jet.

The Pacquiao private jet people search for comes from a January 2011 rumor that he had bought a 32-seat European-made jet. Both Manny and Jinkee Pacquiao denied owning it, and Ilocos Sur governor Chavit Singson denied being its real owner too.

For fights, Pacquiao charters, and at scale. For the 2014 Chris Algieri fight in Macau, AirAsia sent two high-density Airbus A320s, about 360 seats in all, to fly his entourage from General Santos, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

The Champions Who Fly Commercial

The more interesting list may be the fighters who could easily afford a jet and do not keep one.

Tyson Fury

No aircraft has been documented for Fury. After the Makhmudov win in April 2026, Isle of Man Today reported him boarding a Loganair flight at London City with his wife Paris and their family, bound for their home on the island.

Mike Tyson

Tyson was on a JetBlue flight out of San Francisco in April 2022 when he punched a passenger who would not leave him alone. Prosecutors in San Mateo County declined to file charges.

Afterward, on his Hotboxin’ podcast, he admitted the obvious. “I shouldn’t even be taking public planes,” he said. “My wife gets mad that I take public planes.”

Gervonta Davis

Davis was aboard a private jet that aborted its takeoff at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport on August 21, 2021, after a nose gear problem. It came to rest nose down in the grass, and no one was hospitalized.

He livestreamed from the runway. “For everybody that want to fly private, I think it’s over with,” he said, adding that he would be driving or catching a train.

The Origin Story: Boxing’s Uneasy Relationship With Flying

Boxing’s first great celebrity was terrified of airplanes. The sport’s jet era is recent, short, and full of aircraft that changed hands.

The irony runs deeper. The airport that has carried Ali’s name since 2019 is also the world hub of UPS, which makes it one of the four busiest cargo airports on Earth.

Why So Few Boxers Own the Aircraft

A boxer’s travel calendar is lumpy. A tennis player or a Formula 1 driver crosses continents every week for most of the year, while a top fighter stages a camp, travels for one fight, and goes home.

That pattern favors charter. A promoter or sponsor can book a heavy jet for fight week, and the fighter never carries the fixed costs, which for an early Global Express run to well over a million dollars a year before the purchase price.

The exceptions fit the rule. Jake Paul’s tracked flights cross between Puerto Rico, the mainland and Europe all year. Canelo’s documented trips, such as Guadalajara to Las Vegas, are exactly the mission a midsize jet like the Legacy 500 is built for.

How Boxing Compares to Other Sports

Boxing looks a lot like tennis. Our tennis players with private jets guide found the same split: plenty of private flying at the top, very little outright ownership.

Formula 1 is the opposite. Its schedule rewards owning, which is why our F1 drivers with private jets roundup reads more like a fleet list.

Combat sports have their own famous charterer. Conor McGregor’s private jet story is a long list of chartered aircraft rather than one he owns, despite the photos. For the wider field, see our list of athletes with private jets.