On July 19, 2024, Floyd Mayweather posted a tour of a new private jet to his tens of millions of Instagram followers. “I just copped another toy,” he said, “but I play with this one in the sky.” The caption read “2 planes.”
On that exact same day, the FAA issued a certificate of registration for a 1990 Gulfstream G-IV, tail number N305DG, to a Las Vegas company called TBE Aviation LLC. The initials stand for The Best Ever.
That single date match is the clearest documentary link between Mayweather and any specific airframe, and it tells a very different story from the one the headlines tell.
This guide covers every jet he has been publicly connected to since 2014, what the aviation registry actually records, what these aircraft are genuinely worth, and the two 2026 lawsuits now circling his aviation entities.
Quick facts about Floyd Mayweather’s private jets
Floyd Mayweather’s Private Jet Fleet
Mayweather has been publicly linked to four private jets since 2014. Two of them appear in FAA registration records under companies tied to his brands, and two are known mainly from his own social media and the coverage that followed.
The distinction matters, because the two documented aircraft are 1990s-vintage Gulfstream IVs, while the jet that made him famous in aviation circles is a modern ultra-long-range G650. The cards below separate what is on the registry from what is on Instagram.
Why two companies?
Mayweather’s jets have been registered to two different Las Vegas entities. Michigan Appearances LLC nods to his birthplace of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and TBE Aviation LLC takes its name from his “The Best Ever” branding. Holding aircraft through single-purpose LLCs is standard practice in business aviation, and it is used for liability, tax, and privacy reasons rather than concealment.
The Origin Story: From a $50 Million Claim to a Blank Bill of Sale
Mayweather retired in 2017 with a professional record of 50-0 and career earnings widely estimated above $1 billion. His aviation story runs alongside that money, and it has grown steadily more complicated.
2014
The G650 enters the story. Mayweather is first reported to have acquired a Gulfstream G650 for roughly $50 million, which he names Air Mayweather. Coverage describes an all-gold interior with gold air vents and fittings, black leather seating, and The Money Team logo throughout the cabin.
June 2016
A second jet appears. On June 16, 2016, Mayweather announces a second aircraft, described by outlets as a 12-seat Gulfstream III with gold cup holders, a gold sink, white leather seating, and a fully stocked galley. Reported prices around $40 million circulate widely and are never confirmed by any transaction record.
2018
The $60 million figure takes hold. Around his 41st birthday, Mayweather posts an extended tour of the G650 to Instagram. The reported value of Air Mayweather climbs in coverage from $50 million to $60 million and later to $65 million, without any new sourcing behind the increases.
April 2023
A documented aircraft arrives. A 1994 Gulfstream IV-SP, serial 1249, registered N151SD, is recorded to Michigan Appearances LLC of Las Vegas on April 21, 2023. It is the first aircraft that can be tied to a Mayweather-linked company through public FAA records.
July 2024
Air Mayweather 2 and N305DG. On July 19, 2024, the FAA issues a certificate of registration for a 1990 Gulfstream G-IV, serial 1139, tail number N305DG, to TBE Aviation LLC. Mayweather posts an interior tour of a newly painted jet the same day, with twelve beige leather seats, monogrammed headrest pillows, and gold cup holders.
March 2025
The livery goes public. Aviation photographers capture N305DG at Van Nuys Airport in California wearing a black and white scheme with Mayweather in red down the fuselage, a TMT logo on the tail, and a 50-0 marking on the wingtip.
May 2025
N151SD moves on. The Gulfstream IV-SP leaves Michigan Appearances LLC on May 9, 2025. A new certificate is issued on June 2, 2025 to a company registered in Cheyenne, Wyoming, ending its association with Mayweather after roughly two years.
September 2025
A charter to Turks and Caicos. A charter operator later says it arranged a private flight to Turks and Caicos in September 2025, providing crew, fuel, maintenance, and flight coordination. The invoice for that trip becomes the subject of a lawsuit the following spring.
November 2025
The blank purchaser field. According to a complaint Mayweather himself later files, he signs an FAA bill of sale for N305DG on behalf of TBE Aviation LLC with the purchaser block left blank and the consideration recorded as “$1.00 & OVC.” He alleges he never received the proceeds.
April 2026
Jet Set Aircraft sues. Jet Set Aircraft Inc. files suit in Los Angeles County against Mayweather, TBE Aviation, and others, alleging more than $105,690 remains unpaid on the September 2025 charter. The claims include breach of contract, unjust enrichment, and fraud. Mayweather has not publicly responded.
May 2026
Mayweather sues for $175 million. Mayweather files a complaint in New York Supreme Court against investment manager Jona Rechnitz and others, alleging fraud and breach of fiduciary duty across real estate, jewelry, and the Gulfstream. He alleges the aircraft was bought with $6.5 million drawn from a $13 million loan secured against his Miami Beach property.
Inside Air Mayweather 2: The Gulfstream IV in Detail
The Gulfstream IV is a heavy business jet built between 1985 and 2018, with more than 900 examples produced across the GIV, GIV-SP, and G450 family. It is a rear-engine, T-tail design and was the long-range benchmark of its era.
Power comes from two Rolls-Royce Tay 611-8 turbofans producing 13,850 pounds of thrust each. The aircraft cruises at Mach 0.80 to 0.85, tops out at Mach 0.88 (505 knots), and reaches a service ceiling of 45,000 feet.
Range is 4,220 nautical miles for the GIV and 4,350 for the GIV-SP. In practice that means Las Vegas to London nonstop with a light load, but not Las Vegas to Tokyo, which is a meaningful limitation for a fighter whose late-career business ran through Japan and the Middle East.
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The exterior is where the jet earns its nickname. Photographs taken at Van Nuys Airport in March 2025 show a black and white fuselage with “Mayweather” painted in red along its length, a TMT logo on the tail, and a 50-0 marking on the wingtip.
Inside, twelve beige leather seats face black tables, with black and red pillows monogrammed with an M on the headrests. Gold cup holders are the recurring signature across every Mayweather aircraft that has been photographed.
The $40 Million Jet That Sells for About $1 Million
This is where the Mayweather jet story diverges most sharply from the numbers. Coverage of his 2016 second jet repeatedly put the price near $40 million, and that figure still circulates a decade later.
A Gulfstream III has never been worth anything close to that on the used market. The type left production in 1986, and as of 2025, airworthy examples list between roughly $600,000 and $1.2 million depending on engine time, avionics, and noise compliance.
Even at its 1980s list price, a new GIII sold for well under $20 million. The $40 million number does not correspond to any market reality for the airframe, new or used.
Where the inflated numbers come from
Celebrity jet valuations are usually recycled rather than reported. One outlet estimates a price, a second cites the first, and within a few cycles the figure hardens into a fact. Nobody checks it against a sale record, because private aircraft transaction prices are almost never disclosed. The FAA registry records who owns an aircraft and when, but not what was paid for it.
The same drift shows up on the G650. Coverage of Air Mayweather has variously reported $50 million, $60 million, and $65 million for the same aircraft across roughly four years, with no new sourcing behind the increases.
The one price figure in this story that carries a paper trail is $6.5 million for N305DG, and it appears in a court filing rather than a press release. It is also a plausible number for a 1990 Gulfstream IV.
The Missing G650
The Gulfstream G650 is the aircraft most people picture when they think of Mayweather’s jet. It is a genuinely exceptional machine: 7,000 nautical miles of range, a Mach 0.925 maximum speed, a 51,000-foot ceiling, and two Rolls-Royce BR725 turbofans.
What is difficult to establish is the registration. No G650 appears in public FAA records under Michigan Appearances LLC, TBE Aviation LLC, or any other entity publicly tied to Mayweather, and the tail numbers that circulate online trace back to aggregator sites that also describe the aircraft as a “1994 Gulfstream G650.”
That detail alone disqualifies the source. The G650 first flew in 2009 and entered service in 2012, so a 1994 example cannot exist.
What this does and does not prove
An absent registry entry is not proof that Mayweather never had a G650. Aircraft are routinely held through owner trusts, offshore registries, or management companies whose names give away nothing, and some owners fly the same jet for years on a long-term lease. What the record does establish is that the only airframes traceable to Mayweather-linked companies are two Gulfstream IVs built in 1990 and 1994.
The 2026 Lawsuits: A Blank Bill of Sale and a $105,000 Invoice
Two separate lawsuits filed in spring 2026 put Mayweather’s aircraft at the center of legal disputes, one with him as defendant and one with him as plaintiff.
Jet Set Aircraft Inc. v. Mayweather
In April 2026, charter operator Jet Set Aircraft Inc. filed suit in Los Angeles County naming Mayweather, TBE Aviation, and jewelry consultant Jona Rechnitz among the defendants. The complaint alleges more than $105,690 went unpaid on a September 2025 charter flight to Turks and Caicos.
The operator says it supplied full flight support, including pilots, fuel, maintenance, and flight coordination. The claims include breach of contract, unjust enrichment, and fraud. Neither Mayweather nor his representatives had publicly responded as of this writing, and the allegations remain untested in court.
The detail worth pausing on is that the flight was a charter. A man with two jets on the registry booked a third-party aircraft for a Caribbean trip, which is a common enough pattern in private aviation and a reminder that owning a jet rarely means flying only that jet.
Mayweather v. Rechnitz
In May 2026, Mayweather filed a complaint in New York Supreme Court against Rechnitz, Ayal Frist, Frist Apex Ventures LLC, attorney Alexander Seligson, and others. The suit seeks roughly $175 million and spans Manhattan real estate, jewelry, and the Gulfstream.
On the aircraft, the complaint alleges that Rechnitz arranged a $13 million loan in July 2024 secured against Mayweather’s Miami Beach property, that roughly $6.5 million went toward buying N305DG, and that only about $4 million reached Mayweather Promotions.
It further alleges that in November 2025 Mayweather signed an FAA bill of sale for the jet on behalf of TBE Aviation LLC with the purchaser block left blank and consideration recorded as “$1.00 & OVC,” and that he never received the proceeds. The defendants have not been found liable, and the case is at the pleading stage.
What "$1.00 & OVC" means
OVC stands for other valuable consideration. It is standard language on an FAA bill of sale and it exists precisely so that the actual price does not have to be disclosed on a public form. The form is a transfer document, not a sales contract, so a nominal dollar figure is normal and is not by itself evidence of anything improper.
Floyd Mayweather’s Most Notable Private Jet Moments
Mayweather has used aircraft as a stage for two decades, and a handful of moments defined how the public sees his fleet.
The Cash Photos
In the run-up to the 2015 Pacquiao fight, Mayweather built a social media persona around photographs of himself aboard private jets surrounded by stacked bundles of $100 bills. The images became the visual shorthand for The Money Team brand.
They were also strategic. The Pacquiao fight generated a record 4.6 million pay-per-view buys, and the jet-and-cash imagery was a deliberate part of building that audience.
The July 2024 Cabin Tour
The video tour of Air Mayweather 2 is the most consequential piece of Mayweather aviation content, because it can be matched to a registry entry. He posted it the same day the FAA issued the certificate for N305DG, describing the aircraft as fresh out of the paint shop.
The Second Jet That Follows Him
Multiple accounts describe Mayweather’s security detail travelling on a separate aircraft rather than aboard his own. This is a common arrangement among high-net-worth travellers and it explains part of why two airframes were held simultaneously between 2024 and 2025.
The Quiet Aircraft
For all the branding, N151SD was not heavily used. Tracking data recorded 38 flights and 102 flight hours across 2024, working out to roughly three flights a month.
Its most frequent airports were Harry Reid International in Las Vegas, Van Nuys in Los Angeles, and Opa-Locka Executive in Miami. That is a Las Vegas to Los Angeles to Miami triangle, not a globe-spanning schedule.
How Mayweather’s Fleet Compares to Other Celebrity Jets
Among athletes with private jets, Mayweather is unusual in one specific way: his documented aircraft are the oldest. Most peers at his earnings level buy factory-fresh or near-new airframes.
Michael Jordan flies a Gulfstream G550 (N236MJ) in a custom Jumpman livery. LeBron James operates a Gulfstream G280 and charters larger aircraft when needed. Both are modern types with modern range.
| Owner | Aircraft | Built | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Floyd Mayweather | Gulfstream G-IV (N305DG) | 1990 | 4,220 NM |
| Michael Jordan | Gulfstream G550 (N236MJ) | 2000s | 6,750 NM |
| LeBron James | Gulfstream G280 | 2010s | 3,600 NM |
| Cristiano Ronaldo | Gulfstream G200 | 2000s | 3,400 NM |
| Elon Musk | Gulfstream G650ER (N628TS) | 2015 | 7,500 NM |
The gap is operational, not just cosmetic. A 1990 Gulfstream IV burns roughly 450 gallons per hour against about 300 for a modern G550 on a comparable leg, and its Tay engines are subject to older noise rules that restrict access at some European airports.
There is a defensible case for the older jet, though. A 1990 GIV bought for around $6.5 million costs a fraction of a new G550, and for a Las Vegas to Los Angeles to Miami pattern, the extra range simply is not needed.
Where Mayweather genuinely stands apart from figures like celebrity pilots John Travolta and Harrison Ford is intent. Those two fly their own aircraft and hold type ratings. Mayweather is not a pilot, and his jets have always been about the paint scheme as much as the flight plan.
The pattern across four jets
Every Mayweather aircraft that has been photographed shares the same design language: gold fittings, monogrammed leather, TMT branding, and the 50-0 record somewhere on the airframe. The models changed and the registrations changed, but the brief did not. These are flying billboards for The Money Team first and transport second.
FAQ
Sources and references used for research and fact-checking.
- AircraftOne (FAA registry data), N305DG Aircraft Registration, Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV, TBE Aviation LLC
- Simple Flying, What Private Jet Does Floyd Mayweather Fly?
- Celebrity Net Worth, Floyd Mayweather Says He Was Duped Out Of $175 Million In Wild Lawsuit Involving Manhattan Real Estate, A Gulfstream Jet, And $100 Million In Jewelry
- Complex, Floyd Mayweather Sued Over Alleged $105,000 Unpaid Private Jet Bill
- Finurah, Floyd Mayweather Shares New Private Jet with Fans on Instagram
- Wikipedia, Gulfstream IV
- evoJets, Gulfstream G-III For Sale
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Tim is the owner and lead editor of AeroCorner since 2019, overseeing aviation content covering aircraft, airlines, airports, and the broader aviation industry. Through years of researching, writing, editing, and publishing aviation-focused content, he has developed extensive practical knowledge of commercial aviation and air travel. Based in Asia and a frequent traveler himself, Tim also brings firsthand passenger experience to AeroCorner’s coverage. Outside of publishing, he has also explored aviation firsthand through hands-on flight training in New Zealand.