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Gulfstream G500 / G600 family

The G500/G600 story, from first flight to lasting reputation

The fly-by-wire Gulfstream large-cabin pair that reset the company’s cabin, avionics, and high-speed operating baseline.

Gulfstream G500 / G600 family is a in service business jet built by Gulfstream. It first flew in 2015, entered service in 2018, and went on to shape airline fleets, passenger journeys, and aviation memory.

First flight

2015

Service entry

2018

Seating band

11 to 19

Gulfstream G500 / G600 family is an in-service business jet by Gulfstream, first flown in 2015 and introduced in 2018, with typical seating for 11 to 19 and range up to 6,600 nautical miles.

Its place in business aviation comes from the combination of mission capability, cabin layout, operator use, and the reasons buyers kept the type or moved to its successors.

Range band

6,600 nm

Notable operators

Corporate operators · Fractional fleets

Source stack

  • Official manufacturer product pages and brochures
  • FAA or EASA type certificate material
  • operator mission and cabin references

Variants

Representative variants

GLF6

G600

G600 is an in-service member of the Gulfstream G500 / G600 family, known for the longer-range branch that best represents the current family’s mission envelope.

Range 6,600 nm · Entry 2019

Specifications

Current public facts

Manufacturer
Gulfstream
Program history
Class
Business jet
Aircraft category
First flight
2015-05-18
Program history
Service entry
2018
Operator records
Current status
In service
Fleet references
Typical seating
11 to 19
Operator and cabin references
Range band
Up to 6,600 nm
Program literature
Cruise speed
516 kt
Planning data

Archive moments

Human context

The G500/G600 family feels like a generational reset: clean cabin design, lower workload, and a calmer kind of flagship than the headline-grabbing ultra-long-range models.
Business-aviation pages stay focused on engineering, cabin layout, and mission logic instead of celebrity shorthand or lifestyle fog.

Timeline

Program milestones

  1. 2015

    First flight

    The G500/G600 begins flight testing and establishes the public shape of the family.

  2. 2018

    Service entry

    The family enters passenger or executive service and begins building its operating footprint.

  3. Today

    Current role

    The family remains active in service and still shapes fleet, mission, or archive discussions.

Related news

Editorial context

All news
No editorial dispatches are attached to this family yet. The aircraft record is live, and newsroom or archive coverage can be layered onto it later without changing the URL.

Forum threads

Community memory

Family hub
Forum referenceG500/G600

G500/G600 current fleet watch

Ongoing sightings, deployment shifts, new operators, route changes, and cabin updates for the Gulfstream G500 / G600 family.