Diddy’s Private Jet: The Gulfstream G550 That Left the Country

On 3 November 2025, the Federal Aviation Administration cancelled the United States registration of a matte black Gulfstream G550 and recorded its export to San Marino, a country of 24,000 people wrapped entirely inside Italy. The aircraft was N1969C. Its registered owner was LoveAir LLC of West Hollywood, California.

That single line in a government database is the end of the Diddy private jet story. Sean Combs owned exactly one aircraft, he held it for just under five years, and by the end of 2025 it was flying under a foreign flag with a new set of letters on the tail.

What follows is the full aviation record: the airframe, its serial number, the birth year hidden in its registration, the day it vanished from public flight trackers, the eighteen months it spent earning money without its owner on board, and the one piece of it Combs did not sell.

Diddy’s Private Jet Fleet

Unlike the multi-aircraft fleets in this series, there is only one entry. No second jet, no helicopter, no turboprop, and no aircraft registered in his own name at any point in the FAA record.

Everything ran through one holding company, LoveAir LLC, registered to an address on West Sunset Boulevard. Coverage of the jet often called it Combs Air, but that name never appeared on a registration document.

Gulfstream G550N1969C · serial 5510 · LoveAir LLC

Sold 2025 · exported to San Marino

Built2015

Registered to LoveAir30 December 2020

Range6,750 NM

Top speedMach 0.885

Passengers14 in his layout, up to 19 certified

Engines2x Rolls-Royce BR710 C4-11

US registration cancelled3 November 2025

The G550 is the aircraft a lot of this series ends up describing, because it is the workhorse of serious celebrity aviation. Michael Jordan flies one as N236MJ and Tiger Woods flies one as N517TW, both airframes from the same Savannah production line.

The Origin Story: How Serial 5510 Became N1969C

The airframe is older than the ownership. Gulfstream built it in 2015 and the FAA issued its airworthiness certificate on 9 April that year, which means it had been flying for more than five years before it ever belonged to Combs.

That December 2020 date is worth holding onto, because a lot of coverage has the acquisition happening in 2022 or ties it to his 50th birthday in 2019. The registry says otherwise, and the registry is the document that decides who owns an aircraft.

Inside the Gulfstream G550

The G550 is a large-cabin, ultra-long-range business jet, and it is the aircraft that made non-stop intercontinental private flying routine. Gulfstream built it from 2003 to 2021, and its 6,750 NM range covers New York to Dubai or Los Angeles to Tokyo without a fuel stop.

His was configured for 14 passengers, comfortably below the 19 the type is certified to carry. That is a deliberate trade: fewer seats buys a longer cabin division, bigger beds, and a proper aft stateroom.

The paint is what made the aircraft recognisable. A full matte black exterior is unusual on a business jet, partly because matte finishes are harder to keep clean and harder to touch up than gloss, and it made N1969C identifiable on any ramp from a phone camera.

Inside, coverage of the aircraft consistently described beige leather, a full entertainment system, and a pet-friendly cabin. If you want the full technical picture of the type, our Gulfstream G550 aircraft page carries the complete specification.

The Tail Number Was His Birth Year

N1969C is not a number the FAA assigned at random. Sean Combs was born on 4 November 1969, and the registration carries the year with his own initial after it.

US owners can request a specific N-number for a small fee, which is why this series is full of them. Kim Kardashian flies N1980K for her birth year, Michael Jordan flies N236MJ for two championship three-peats and his initials.

The Day the Jet Disappeared From Flight Trackers

In late March 2024, people searching N1969C on FlightAware stopped finding flights. In place of the history, the site returned a single line: this aircraft is not available for public tracking per request from the owner/operator.

The timing drew attention because it came within days of federal searches at two Combs properties. FlightAware’s Kathleen Bangs told reporters at the time that the blocking itself was unremarkable, saying “this is not uncommon.”

She was right, and the mechanism is worth understanding, because it is the same one Drake, Steven Spielberg and Donald Trump have used. It is called LADD.

Limiting Aircraft Data Displayed is an FAA programme that lets a registered owner ask the agency to stop passing their aircraft’s flight data to commercial tracking sites. Owners can choose source blocking, where the FAA never releases the data at all, or subscriber-level blocking, where vendors receive it but are not permitted to display it publicly.

A second programme, Privacy ICAO Address, goes further by rotating the transponder identity the aircraft broadcasts, so the airframe is harder to follow even on receiver networks that do not depend on FAA feeds.

The Jet Kept Flying Without Him

Combs was arrested in September 2024 and held without bail. The aircraft carried on working.

This is normal aviation practice rather than anything unusual. A large-cabin jet costs money whether it flies or not, and most owners place the aircraft with a management company that charters it out to third parties between owner trips.

N1969C was managed by Silver Air, a charter operator based in Southern California, and it appeared on brokerage platforms including Victor and Jettly. Buyers booking a seat on those marketplaces see the aircraft type and the operator, not the person on the registration.

British outlet IBTimes UK reported in December 2025 that the jet had flown more than 149,000 miles (240,000 km) across over 120 charter trips in the period after the arrest. One-way legs were priced as high as $100,000, and total revenue was estimated above $4 million.

Those figures come from tracking data and broker listings rather than from any filing. Treat them as an order of magnitude rather than an audited number.

The destinations reported over that stretch were ordinary charter geography: French Polynesia, New Zealand, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Baja California.

The $60 Million Question

Almost every article written about this aircraft calls it a $60 million jet. That figure is worth taking apart, because it is not what the aircraft was worth and almost certainly not what anyone paid for it.

A brand new G550 carried a fully equipped list price of roughly $54.5 million in 2021, its final production year. The $60 million number is a rounded-up new-aircraft figure, and this aircraft was not new when Combs got it.

Business jets depreciate hard. By the time the sale closed in October 2025, pre-owned 2015-build G550s were listing broadly between $15 million and $30 million depending on total hours, engine programme enrolment and maintenance status.

None of this is unique to him. The gap between the headline number attached to a celebrity jet and its real market value is one of the most consistent patterns in this series.

Sold, Deregistered, and Flying as T7-OKS

The sale closed in October 2025, which placed it a few weeks after his sentencing on 3 October to 50 months in prison, a $500,000 fine and five years of supervised release on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. He had been acquitted of the racketeering and sex trafficking charges in July.

Silver Air confirmed the sale to Business Insider in January 2026. The paperwork side had already gone through: the FAA cancelled the US registration on 3 November 2025 and recorded the export country as San Marino.

The jet now wears T7-OKS. The T7 prefix belongs to San Marino, a landlocked microstate of about 24,000 people with no international airport of its own.

The Tail Number He Did Not Sell

Here is the detail almost nobody has picked up, and it sits in the FAA’s own files.

An N-number and an airframe are separate things. When an aircraft leaves the US register, the registration mark it was wearing goes back into the pool unless somebody claims it, and anybody can reserve an available N-number for an annual fee.

On 3 November 2025, the same day the aircraft was deregistered and exported, LoveAir LLC reserved N1969C. The reservation is filed to the same West Sunset Boulevard address, and it appears in the FAA’s reserved N-number file with an expiry date of 3 September 2026 and a purge date of 3 December 2026.

So the position as of the FAA’s September 2026 data is straightforward. Sean Combs owns no aircraft. The company that held his jet still holds his birth year.

How Diddy’s Jet Compared to Other Celebrity Aircraft

A G550 sits high in the celebrity fleet but not at the top of it. The tier above is the G650ER and the Global 7500, and above that is the small group who bought a converted airliner.

Within music, the comparison that matters is with Drake’s Boeing 767, an aircraft in a completely different weight class, and with Jay-Z and Beyonce’s Bombardier Challenger 850. Our roundup of rappers with private jets covers the wider field, and Hollywood celebrities with private jets extends it beyond music.

One structural point sets him apart from most of that list. Combs is now among a small group in this series who owned a jet and no longer do, alongside Lewis Hamilton, whose Bombardier Challenger 605 also left its home register and went abroad after he sold it.