Last Gulfstream G650 Rolls Off Production Line

The news marks an end of a "legendary era," the company said.

“While this will be the final G650 produced, the fleet’s high utilization and dispatch reliability mean these aircraft will serve customers for decades to come," Mark Burns, president of Gulfstream, said in a statement. "As with any Gulfstream aircraft completing production, our customer support and program management teams will continue to research, develop, and deploy advanced technologies and upgrades for retrofit, such as Honeywell Primus Epic Block 3, announced last July, and Starlink high-speed internet, announced in October."

Burns said that since their inception, the G650 and G650ER have become the “industry standard" and recently surpassed 1 million flight hours. 

"Beyond the program’s innumerable accolades and 125-plus world speed records, innovations introduced with the form, fit, and precision manufacturing process of the G650 laid the groundwork for today’s next-generation Gulfstream fleet," he said.

The G650 design won the Robert J. Collier Trophy in 2014 and went on to perform many notable flights, such as a 2015 world circumnavigation accomplished with just one stop and flying from Singapore to Tucson, Arizona, in 2019. The G650 was also selected as the aircraft of choice in the 2019 “One More Orbit” mission, which was recognized by Guinness World Records for achieving the fastest circumnavigation of Earth around both the north and south poles.

The last G650 will be delivered to a customer later this year.