When it comes to private jets, it’s all about the need for speed. New York to L.A. in under four hours, multiple business meetings in different cities on the same day, home in time to tuck in the kids.
That already happened with one new aircraft whose advertised speed is sub-sonic. In initial flight tests, Bombardier’s $78 million Global 8000 flagship hit Mach 1.015 . Some analysts expect France’s Dassault Falcon 10X, scheduled to go into service in 2025, to exceed its predicted Mach 0.925 top speed.
Here are nine of the fastest private jets, most flying now and a few that may—or may not—eventually populate the skies., has already gone supersonic with a speed of Mach 1.015, or 778 mph. With a certified top speed of Mach 0.94, it’s the fastest civil aircraft since Concorde.