Linus Tech Tips’ Private Jet: The 1990 Falcon 900B Canada’s Register Ties to His Studio

Linus Tech Tips' company owns one private jet: a 1990 Dassault Falcon 900B, C-FXOO. The register record, the $0 math, the flights and the backlash.

Published: by Tim de Vries

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Linus Tech Tips does have a private jet, and unlike most YouTubers’ jets, this one is on a government register. Transport Canada lists C-FXOO, a 1990 Dassault Falcon three-engine jet, under a numbered British Columbia company trading as Influence Air.

The company sits at the Surrey address that a flight-tracking site traced to Linus Media Group’s headquarters. Linus Sebastian then confirmed the purchase himself on April 2, 2026, in a video that called the jet a “$0” plane.

Below: the Linus Tech Tips private jet as the register records it, where it came from, what the “$0” really means, where it has flown, and why his own audience was the loudest critic.

Quick facts about Linus Tech Tips’ private jet

C-FXOO Canadian registration
Falcon 900B Aircraft type
1990 Year built, serial 86
4,000 NM Range with 8 passengers
Nov. 10, 2025 Registered to 1548194 B.C. Ltd. (Influence Air)

Linus Tech Tips’ Private Jet Fleet

The fleet is one airplane. We checked Transport Canada’s civil aircraft register in its October 21, 2026 file and the FAA’s releasable aircraft database from the same week, and C-FXOO is the only aircraft we found tied to the company.

Dassault Falcon 900BC-FXOO · serial 86 · 1548194 B.C. Ltd. (Influence Air)
Current · active
Built1990, France
RegisteredNovember 10, 2025
Home basePitt Meadows, BC (CYPK)
Range4,000 NM with 8 passengers
Cruise speedMach 0.85
Engines3x Honeywell TFE731-5BR
Seats15 (high-density cabin, refurbished 2019)
PriceUndisclosed (NDA)

The owner on file is 1548194 B.C. Ltd., trade name Influence Air, at 101-18643 52 Ave in Surrey, British Columbia. The registration is private, not commercial, so Influence Air is not a charter airline you can book.

There is no earlier jet. Before the Falcon, no aircraft on either register traces to Linus Sebastian, Linus Media Group or Influence Air, which makes this the company’s first and only airplane.

How we checked

We searched Transport Canada’s civil aircraft register database (file dated October 21, 2026) by mark, owner name and trade name, and the FAA releasable aircraft database (October 2026 release) for Linus Media Group, Influence Air and Linus Sebastian. Only C-FXOO came back. The link from the numbered company to Linus Media Group rests on the shared address and domain records reported by Ground Control, and on Linus Sebastian’s own April 2026 video.

The Origin Story: From a Charter Jet to the “Gamer Jet”

C-FXOO spent years flying for someone else before it reached Linus Media Group. The paper trail runs from a French factory to a Canadian charter fleet to a numbered company in Surrey.

1990

The jet is built. Dassault completes Falcon serial 86 in France. Linus says he was told its first owner was the government of the United Arab Emirates, which he has not documented.

2008

Linus Tech Tips starts. Linus Sebastian, then working for Canadian retailer NCIX, creates the channel on November 24, 2008.

2013

Linus Media Group launches. Sebastian founds the company in October 2012 and launches it formally in 2013.

April 2016

Imported to Canada. Transport Canada’s register records the aircraft’s date of import as April 8, 2016.

Before 2025

A charter jet. The Falcon flies for NovaJet, a Canadian charter operator, with a paint scheme from 2018 and a 15-seat cabin refurbished in 2019.

May 2025

Heavy maintenance. Listing records cited by Ground Control show a fresh C-check plus landing gear and engine overhauls.

August 2025

A name appears. The domain influenceair.ca is registered, owned by Linus Media Group CTO Luke Lafreniere, per Ground Control.

November 10, 2025

Registered to Influence Air. The registration to 1548194 B.C. Ltd. takes effect, with a certificate issued December 11, 2025.

January 2026

First trips and a tease. The jet flies to Las Vegas for CES and to the New York area. On January 15, Sebastian mentions a big content acquisition yet to be disclosed.

January 24, 2026

The story breaks. Ground Control publishes the registration and the Influence Air link.

April 2, 2026

Confirmed on camera. Linus Tech Tips posts "The Gamer Jet is Real! and it Cost $0*", a 25-minute tour of the Falcon.

The story broke before Linus said a word. Jack Sweeney of Ground Control, a flight-data site, matched the registration to Linus Media Group’s headquarters address and the Influence Air domain to Lafreniere.

At that point the company had not announced anything and had not answered Ground Control’s request for comment. The confirmation came 10 weeks later, from Linus himself.

Inside C-FXOO: The Falcon 900B Linus Bought

The Falcon 900 is Dassault’s three-engine large-cabin jet, first flown in 1984. The family is still in production today as the Falcon 900LX.

One detail is easy to miss. Transport Canada files C-FXOO simply as a “Mystere Falcon 900”, while Linus and Ground Control call it a 900B. The 900B was a 1991 production standard with uprated TFE731-5BR engines, and Honeywell’s conversion program brought most earlier 900s up to that engine standard.

Performance

Range4,000 NM (8 pax)
CruiseMach 0.85
Ceiling51,000 ft

Powerplant

Engines3x TFE731-5BR
Thrust4,750 lbf each
Max takeoff weight46,500 lb (21,092 kg)

This airframe

Hours13,757
Landings6,721
Mode S codeC03E37

The hours and landings come from the sale listing records Ground Control reviewed, so they describe the jet when it changed hands. The takeoff weight is the figure on the Canadian register.

Inside, the video tour shows a cabin that is not what you would build for a tech channel. Dexerto reports gold-plated ashtrays and sinks, two bathrooms, and a rare medevac kit that Linus thinks will help resale.

He nicknamed it the “Millenial Falcon,” spelling and all. The video description says the plane is “to be used for work,” and was filmed in a hangar rented from Northern Rockies Lodge in northern British Columbia.

What the “$0” Price Really Means

The jet did not cost $0. Linus will not give the price, citing a non-disclosure agreement, and told viewers that “if you Google it, it’s less than” the roughly $5 million that listings showed for similar planes.

Ground Control estimated $5 million to $6 million, which is its own estimate rather than a reported figure. The “$0” is a resale argument: all three engines had just been overhauled, and the jet had just been through a 12-year inspection.

Linus told viewers that engine work can cost up to $1 million per engine. His logic, which he called “girl math,” is that the buyer of a freshly maintained jet should get most of the price back when he sells.

What the $0 leaves out

Resale value only covers the purchase. Fuel, crew, hangar, insurance and the next round of scheduled maintenance are spent for good, and a three-engine jet has three engines to keep paying for. EarlyGame also cites critic AugustTheDuck arguing that the recovery math and a claim that a family trip would cost less than first class do not add up.

The Backlash and the Carbon Count

The sharpest criticism came from Linus’s own archive. EarlyGame resurfaced a WAN Show clip from about two years earlier in which he said, “I’m personally kind of opposed to the private air travel industry.”

The same outlet says he had criticized private jet use by Taylor Swift and Elon Musk on the show. Both are famous for it: Taylor Swift’s private jets became a carbon story, and Elon Musk’s private jets became a tracking fight.

Now the tracking is pointed at him. A subreddit, r/LMGJet, and an unofficial site, lttjet.com, follow C-FXOO through its public transponder code.

What the tracker counts

As of its latest logged flight on October 12, 2026, lttjet.com lists 51 flights since December 2025, 124 hours 38 minutes in the air and 50,962 nautical miles. It estimates 407.2 metric tons of CO2. The site does not say who runs it, and its method is its own, so treat the carbon figure as an outside estimate, not a measured number.

Even on the tracker’s own numbers, this is a working jet rather than a daily commuter. Its busiest months were January and April 2026, at about 26 flight hours each, and February logged under two.

Linus Tech Tips’ Most Famous Private Jet Moments

CES 2026: The Jet’s First Big Trip

Ground Control’s tracking data shows C-FXOO flying from Vancouver to Las Vegas just before CES 2026, the January tech trade show. A photo of the jet at Las Vegas on January 5, 2026 appears in that report.

The Tonight Show Trip to New York

After a short hop home, the jet flew to the New York area. The timing matched Linus’s appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to show off CES gadgets.

The April 2 Reveal and the Broken Screw

The 25-minute tour went up on April 2 and passed 2 million views. Dexerto’s write-up noted a cockpit fault traced to one overtightened screw, and a cargo hatch Linus opened by accident that needs powered help to close.

Coast-to-Coast Runs From Pitt Meadows

The jet is based at Pitt Meadows Regional Airport, east of Vancouver, according to the register. The tracker’s longest legs reach Orlando at about 2,350 nautical miles, plus Bedford, Massachusetts, Teterboro, New Jersey, and Greenville, North Carolina.

How Linus Compares to Other YouTubers With Jets

Very few creators own a jet. In our roundup of YouTubers with private jets, only three of the names we checked had an aircraft on a register: Linus, Jake Paul and MrBeast’s company.

CreatorAircraftRegistrationRegistered owner
Linus SebastianDassault Falcon 900B (1990)C-FXOO1548194 B.C. Ltd. (Influence Air)
Jake PaulBombardier Global Express (1999)N69JPPaul Air LLC
MrBeastHawker 400XPN505XPMrBeastYouTube LLC
Sources: Transport Canada civil aircraft register (October 21, 2026 file) and FAA releasable aircraft database (October 2026 release).

The Falcon sits between the other two. It is far bigger than MrBeast’s light Hawker and nine years older and smaller than Jake Paul’s ultra-long-range Global Express.

It is also the only one of the three on a Canadian register rather than the FAA’s. The difference that matters to his audience is the brand: a channel built on value-for-money reviews bought a three-engine jet and called it free.

FAQ

Yes. A 1990 Dassault Falcon 900B, registration C-FXOO, is registered in Canada to 1548194 B.C. Ltd., trading as Influence Air, which Ground Control linked to Linus Media Group. Linus Sebastian confirmed the purchase in an April 2, 2026 video.
The jet is a Dassault Falcon 900B, a three-engine large-cabin business jet built in 1990 as serial 86. It is owned through a company rather than by Linus personally, and it is the only aircraft we found tied to him on the Canadian or US registers.
The price is not public. Linus says a non-disclosure agreement covers the sale and that he paid less than the roughly $5 million that similar planes were listed for. Ground Control estimated $5 million to $6 million.
The $0 is a resale argument, not a price. All three engines had just been overhauled and the jet had passed a 12-year inspection, so Linus expects to recover most of the purchase price when he sells it. Fuel, crew, hangar and insurance costs are not recovered.
Influence Air is the trade name of 1548194 B.C. Ltd., the Surrey, British Columbia company that holds the jet’s registration. The registration is private, not commercial, so it is not a charter airline. Ground Control reported that its domain is owned by Linus Media Group CTO Luke Lafreniere.
A Falcon 900B has a range of about 4,000 nautical miles with eight passengers and cruises at about Mach 0.85. That is enough to cross North America nonstop or fly from the US East Coast to Europe.
Transport Canada’s register lists the jet’s base as Pitt Meadows Regional Airport, east of Vancouver, British Columbia. Linus Media Group is headquartered in nearby Surrey.
Critics pointed to an older WAN Show clip in which Linus said he was personally opposed to the private air travel industry, and to his earlier criticism of Taylor Swift and Elon Musk for flying private. Others raised the jet’s carbon emissions, which an unofficial tracker estimates at about 407 metric tons through October 2026.

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Tim de Vries

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.