NFL Players With Private Jets: Who Actually Owns One

The NFL’s most openly discussed private jet belongs to an offensive tackle. Trent Williams of the 49ers says he paid “a little more than $3 million” for a Gulfstream IV, painted it with the logo of his clothing brand, and now fields jet requests from rookies.

That price is the first surprise about NFL players with private jets. The second is how few of them there are: we checked the Federal Aviation Administration’s aircraft register for every name on the usual lists, and only two jets could be tied to a current or recent player.

This article covers the players who own an aircraft, the stars who rent one through ambassador deals, the quarterbacks who fly themselves, and the one coach who refused to board a plane at all.

Which NFL Players Own a Private Jet

The short answer is that four players are documented flying a jet of their own, Brady’s ownership is unconfirmed, and only two of those jets can be traced on the public register. Everyone else on the popular lists either charters, holds an ambassador deal with a jet company, or flies the team plane.

Russell Wilson: The Gulfstream IV Registered to West2East 330 LLC

Russell Wilson’s private jet is the best documented on this list. It is a 2000 Gulfstream IV-SP, serial number 1382, registered N330RW to West2East 330 LLC, a company with a Seattle address.

The FAA issued the registration certificate on December 8, 2020, when Wilson was still the Seahawks quarterback. The Seattle Times tied the LLC to Wilson using the same FAA records, and the registration was still valid in the October 2026 release.

The Gulfstream IV was Gulfstream’s flagship of the late 1980s and 1990s. The SP version Wilson owns started at serial 1214 in 1993 and stretches the range to about 4,350 nautical miles.

Gulfstream IV-SPN330RW · serial 1382 · West2East 330 LLC · Russell Wilson

Current · active

RegisteredDecember 2020

Year built2000

Range4,350 NM

Top speedMach 0.88

PassengersUp to 19

Engines2x Rolls-Royce Tay 611-8

Purchase priceNot disclosed

The jet hunt that came before it made headlines in 2026. Justice Department files released that year include January 2019 emails in which Jeffrey Epstein’s pilot called Wilson a “new contender” for Epstein’s own Gulfstream IV, priced at $3.2 million.

Wilson responded that “some random plane broker” had tried to sell him a plane, that he had no idea whose it was, and that he never bought it. The files show no evidence that he took part in any transaction, and the G-IV he did buy in 2020 is a different airframe.

Trent Williams: The $3 Million Gulfstream With a Gorilla on the Side

Trent Williams is one of the few NFL players to talk openly about owning a jet. On the I Am Athlete podcast in 2022, the 49ers left tackle said he paid “a little more than $3 million” for a Gulfstream IV.

The jet wears the logo of SBG, short for Silverback Gorilla, his apparel company, and he employs his own pilot. He also said the purchase earned him a tax credit of more than $1 million under the Section 179 deduction.

That $3 million price is the clearest lesson in this article. A secondhand G-IV costs about a quarter of a new Pilatus PC-24, because the type entered service in 1987 and more than 900 of the family were built.

Gulfstream IVRegistration not publicly confirmed · SBG livery · Trent Williams

Current · active

Price paidA little over $3M (his figure)

Range4,220 to 4,350 NM by variant

Top speedMach 0.88

PassengersUp to 19

Engines2x Rolls-Royce Tay 611-8

CrewHis own pilot

The tail number has never been published, and no G-IV on the FAA register carries his name. That is normal for a jet held through a company, so we list the aircraft on his word and the San Francisco Chronicle’s reporting rather than a registration.

Teammates know the plane well. Williams flew rookie lineman Jason Poe to training camp in 2022, and in 2025 rookie Mykel Williams asked to borrow it for a trip to Cabo San Lucas, so the two flew down together.

Tom Brady: A Gulfstream G550 With No Tail Number

Tom Brady is the name every list leads with, and the hardest to pin down. He regularly flies a Gulfstream G550 estimated at around $20 million, but no registration or owning company for it has ever been made public.

Some lists attach the tail number N236MJ to Brady. That registration belongs to Michael Jordan’s Gulfstream G650ER, held by MJ Air LLC, and has nothing to do with Brady.

Gulfstream G550Registration not disclosed · owning entity not disclosed · Tom Brady

Flies · ownership unconfirmed

Reported value~$20M

Range6,750 NM

Top speedMach 0.885

Passengers14 to 19

Engines2x Rolls-Royce BR710 C4-11

Built2003 to 2021

Brady is also an early investor in and brand ambassador for Wheels Up, which sells on-demand private flying. The full trail on Tom Brady’s private jet, including the G550 order reported in 2008, is the closest anyone has come to an answer.

Jason Kelce: The Only Kelce Brother With a Jet

The Kelce family jet belongs to the retired Eagles center, not the Chiefs tight end. N620JK is a 2021 Pilatus PC-24, serial number 249, registered to Kelce Air LLC, a Delaware company.

Jason Kelce announced his retirement on March 4, 2024, and the FAA issued the PC-24’s certificate on November 21, 2024. The JK in the tail number points to Jason, though the register names only the LLC.

Pilatus PC-24N620JK · serial 249 · Kelce Air LLC · Jason Kelce

Active · 2024-present

RegisteredNovember 2024

Year built2021

Range2,000 NM with six passengers

Max cruise440 KTAS

PassengersUp to 10

Engines2x Williams FJ44-4A

New price~$12.2M equipped (2023)

The PC-24 is a sensible owner’s jet: it seats up to 10 and cost about $12.2 million new in 2023, a fraction of a large Gulfstream. Travis Kelce, despite the private flights tied to his relationship with Taylor Swift, has no aircraft in his name, and Travis Kelce’s private jet story lays out the charters he uses instead.

Patrick Mahomes and Rob Gronkowski: The Ambassador Model

Patrick Mahomes does not own a private jet, and no aircraft is registered in his name. He flies with Airshare, a fractional and jet card operator based in Lenexa, Kansas.

The relationship started before his first season as the Chiefs’ starter in 2018, and Airshare extended its marketing partnership with him in 2023. “Airshare was one of my first partnerships,” Mahomes said at the time. By October 2024 the company described him as a customer of seven years who uses its service extensively in the offseason.

Airshare’s fleet is the Embraer Phenom 300 and the Bombardier Challenger 350 family. When it ordered three Challenger 350s in 2021, the company said the cabin suited Mahomes’ frequent family travel.

Rob Gronkowski took the same route. Sentient Jet, the jet card brand owned by Flexjet, named him an official brand ambassador in May 2024, after about six years of working with the company.

The Quarterbacks Who Fly Themselves

At least two NFL quarterbacks have gone further than owning a jet: they learned to fly. Ryan Tannehill confirmed in June 2023 that he had earned his pilot’s license, and flew his wife and children the day after passing the exam.

His certificate covers single-engine planes over land only. Titans coach Mike Vrabel said he would not be going up with him, because he has cars bigger than the plane his quarterback is licensed to fly.

Joshua Dobbs, a journeyman quarterback with an aerospace engineering degree from the University of Tennessee and a NASA internship behind him, completed his private pilot certificate in a Cirrus SR22. In May 2026 he was weeks from his instrument rating checkride.

Dobbs uses the Cirrus the way other players use a charter. One offseason weekend took him from McKinney, Texas, to Knoxville, then to the Masters in Augusta and the Food City 500 in Bristol, before he flew home.

Both join a short list of celebrities who are actually pilots, as opposed to passengers in an expensive cabin.

The Team Plane: Where Most NFL Flying Actually Happens

During the season, players do not need a jet of their own. Every team charters its road trips, and the New England Patriots went a step further by buying their own widebodies.

Two 1991 Boeing 767-300 airliners, N36NE and N225NE, are registered to 2/25/94 LLC at One Patriot Place in Foxborough. The register also lists a 2025 Gulfstream G800, N616KG, under AirKraft One Trust, which Simple Flying ties to the Patriots through Planespotters.

That is a team asset, not a player’s, and the wider story of sports teams with private jets covers how clubs across the major leagues move their rosters.

The Origin Story: How the NFL Learned to Fly Private

Private flying in the NFL started with owners and teams, and reached the players only recently. These are the dates that shaped it.

Famous NFL Private Jet Moments

The coach who would not fly

John Madden flew during his coaching career and gave it up as a broadcaster. He blamed claustrophobia: “I didn’t like getting on planes before that. I got claustrophobic, and it got worse over the years.”

Instead of a private jet, he crossed the country by train and, from 1987, by bus. The original Madden Cruiser went to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2018.

Peyton Manning’s exit flight

On March 7, 2012, the day the Colts cut him, Peyton Manning flew to Florida on owner Jim Irsay’s private plane. Hours later he told reporters he had “no idea who wants me, what team wants me.”

The rookie ride to camp

Trent Williams flying rookie Jason Poe to 49ers training camp in 2022 is the rare case of a player’s jet working as a team asset. Williams says requests from teammates are “probably one of the most frequently asked questions” he gets.

Why So Few NFL Players Buy the Aircraft

The NFL schedule removes most of the reason to own a jet. From training camp to the playoffs, the team flies every player to every road game, so a personal aircraft would sit idle for half the year.

That leaves the offseason, which is exactly what fractional programs and jet cards are built for. A player pays for the hours he flies, the operator handles crew and maintenance, and a jet company often pays him to be seen doing it.

The players who did buy share a pattern. Williams and Wilson chose secondhand Gulfstreams built decades ago, Williams for less than a new light jet costs, and Jason Kelce bought only after he retired and the team plane stopped being an option.

How the NFL Compares to Other Sports

Football players fly smaller and older than the biggest names elsewhere. Michael Jordan’s Gulfstream G650ER, a 2024 airframe registered to MJ Air LLC, outclasses every jet in this article, and the full list of athletes with private jets runs to Cristiano Ronaldo’s G650 and Tiger Woods’ G550.

Soccer’s biggest stars own more aircraft than NFL players do, as the roundup of footballers with private jets shows. Tennis looks more like the NFL: tennis players with private jets mostly charter, share or borrow.

The difference is the team plane. A soccer star flies with his club too, but international duty and a year-round calendar give him more reasons to own, while an NFL player’s working year is booked onto a chartered airliner.