Nicki Minaj “Bought” a Pink Jet in 2025. The Gulfstream Tied to Her Has Had the Same Owner Since 2015

In July 2025, Nicki Minaj told her followers she had just bought her first jet, and that it was all pink. One outlet then named the Nicki Minaj private jet: a 1999 Gulfstream IV-SP registered N428KS.

The FAA register tells a different story. N428KS has been registered to the same Delaware company, SN 1360 LLC, since July 2015, and trade reports place it with charter operators. Nothing on the register carries her name.

This guide covers what the register shows, how one charter Gulfstream became “her” jet, what the airplane can do, her best-known private flights, and how she compares with the rappers who really do have a tail number.

Nicki Minaj’s Private Jet Fleet: One Charter Gulfstream, No Registration

There is no fleet to list. We searched the FAA’s aircraft database, in its November 4, 2026 release, for her stage name, her legal name Onika Maraj, and company names built from her brands, including Pink Friday, Barbz and Young Money.

None of them led to an aircraft. The one airframe tied to her by name in the coverage is N428KS, so that is the card below.

Gulfstream IV-SPN428KS · serial 1360 · SN 1360 LLC, Wilmington, Delaware

Charter · reported as hers

Built1999

Registered owner sinceJuly 21, 2015

Range4,220 NM

Max cruise488 kt

Engines2x Rolls-Royce Tay 611-8

Nicki Minaj's ownershipNone on the register

The Paper Trail: How a Charter Gulfstream Became Nicki Minaj’s Jet

The airframe was flying long before anyone linked it to her. These are the dated points in the record, from the FAA files, the trade press and her own posts.

The “First Jet” Post, Read Closely

The full post, as SlashGear quoted it, read: “Just bought my first jet. It’s all pink. Come on losers get in! Sike. Fly Barbz only.” Several outlets ran it as a purchase announcement.

The wording is a joke with more than one reading. Our own rappers roundup took the “Sike” as cancelling the whole claim, while it can also be read as taking back only the invitation to the “losers.”

SlashGear went further and tied the post to N428KS, suggesting she chartered the jet for years and then bought it. The register does not support that step: the last FAA action on N428KS is dated April 2024, more than a year before the post.

Seven months after that last action, in November 2024, the jet began flying for a Florida charter operator. We found no record of a sale, and no source for the pink interior.

The older claim fares no better. Some sites said she owned a Gulfstream V worth $43 million to $72 million, which SlashGear traces to a 2017 jet video and to lyrics, where “G5” is common shorthand for any private jet.

Inside the Gulfstream IV-SP: A Proven Long-Range Charter Jet

The Gulfstream IV is a large-cabin, long-range business jet built from 1985 to 2018. The SP version appeared in 1993 and was later renamed the G400, according to Wikipedia’s history of the type.

Those are the family figures from our Gulfstream IV spec page. A 4,220 NM range is comfortably more than the roughly 3,150 NM from New York to Paris.

Our spec page lists up to 19 seats, while a charter listing for N428KS shows 13 in one place and 16 in another. Seat count depends on how each cabin is fitted.

NetJets, which flew the jet for its first 16 years, is the fractional company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. SlashGear put a pre-owned Gulfstream IV-SP at $2 million to $5 million, an estimate for the type, not a sale price for this jet.

Nicki Minaj’s Most Famous Private Jet Moments

Detained at Schiphol Before a Private Flight, May 2024

On May 25, 2024, Dutch military police detained Minaj at Schiphol-Oost, the private aviation side of Amsterdam’s airport, before a private flight to Manchester. A spokesperson told NL Times a 41-year-old American woman was held for possession of soft drugs.

She livestreamed much of it, said she had not boarded the jet, and said the pre-rolls belonged to her security. One Mile at a Time noted she also blamed the pilot, who it said was following police orders.

She was fined and released that night, and DutchReview put the fine at €350. Her Co-op Live show in Manchester was postponed, with the venue saying the day’s events had made it impossible, CBS News reported.

The #NickiMinajChallenge Started on a Tarmac

In June 2017, she posted a clip from a London tarmac, dressed in pink, announcing she was leaving London for Prague before walking onto a private jet. W Magazine reported fans copied the format for everything from taking out the trash onward.

W framed it as a riff on the #BowWowChallenge, which began when Bow Wow’s private jet photo turned out not to be his flight. That is the trap our rappers with private jets roundup tracks across the genre.

“You Get Your Own Bedroom”

A 2017 Instagram tour showed a jet with a made-up bed and an attached bathroom. “Who wants to fly with me? You get your own bedroom & your own bathroom. For the low low,” she wrote, HotNewHipHop reported.

No outlet identified that aircraft. Even so, SlashGear says it was this video that some sites later paired with the Gulfstream V claim.

Papa Bear on the Airstairs, June 2024

Three weeks after Amsterdam, she shared a family video in which “Papa Bear” climbs the stairs of a private jet, The Source reported. Like her other jet posts, it named no aircraft.

How Nicki Minaj Compares With Rappers Who Have a Tail Number

Some of her peers have an aircraft on the register, and others charter the way she appears to. Travis Scott’s Lineage 1000 is registered to his own company, while Drake’s Boeing 767 sits under a bank trustee.

Rihanna is the closest match: a billionaire star who charters and has never had a registration tied to her. Minaj fits the same pattern, with a jet joke standing in for a tail number.

So the honest answer is the less exciting one. She clearly flies private, and the jet most often named as hers is a 1999 charter Gulfstream whose registered owner has not changed in more than a decade.