20-Year-old Florida student tracks famous private jet owners’ summer trips
He may be only 20 years old, but a brilliant young University of Central Florida college student created headlines earlier this year when he got the attention of the wealthiest man in the world, Elon Musk.
Jack Sweeney is soft-spoken, shy, and not at all affected by the attention he has received following his encounter with Musk. The billionaire offered to pay him to stop tracking his private jet travel after Sweeney launched the enormously popular Twitter account @elonjet, with almost half a million followers. Even though he turned down Musk’s cash offer to take the account down, there is a chance the two of them could eventually settle…if Musk takes him along for a ride on his jet and lets him film it.
Surprisingly, Jack Sweeney has never flown on a private jet and is really just fascinated by airplanes of all types, not just famous ones. We spoke at length about his popular Twitter account @CelebJets, which follows celebrities, Russian oligarchs, and others and their private jet trips, many of them lasting under 20 minutes.
Mark Wahlberg
Bombardier BD-700:
Summer jet trips: London, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Las Vegas, Toronto
Blake Shelton
Gulfstream 4
Summer jet trips: Dallas, Calgary, Oklahoma, Iowa
Tom Cruise
Bombardier Challenger 300
Summer jet trips: Ireland, Aspen, Maryland, Bangor-Maine, Las Vegas, Napa, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Denver, Tennessee.
Harrison Ford
Cessna 680 Citation
Summer jet trips: Idaho Falls, Jackson-Wyoming, Montana, Tennessee
Alex Rodriguez
Gulfstream 4
Summer jet trips: Miami, Atlanta, New York, Las Vegas, Coeur d’Alene-Idaho, Westhampton
Kylie Jenner
Bombardier BD-700
Summer jet trips: Turks & Caicos, Palm Springs, Milan, London, Big Whale Cay-Bahamas, Berry Islands-Bahamas, Miami, Westhampton
Kim Kardashian
Gulfstream 5
Summer jet trips: Turks & Caicos, Westhampton, Paris, Australia, Nice, Naples, Big Whale Cay-Bahamas.
Kenny Chesney
Dassault Falcon 900
Summer jet trips: Nashville, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Monterey, Rhode Island, Key West, Utah, Virgin Islands.
Jay Z
Gulfstream 5
Summer jet trips: Puerto Vallarta, New Jersey, Colorado, Seattle, Dusseldorf, Bavaria, Hawaii, Iceland, Medellin-Colombia.
Jack Nicklaus
Gulfstream 5
Summer jet trips: Aspen, Westhampton, Lake Tahoe, Sardinia, Naplesm Nice, Tuscany, Milan.
Floyd Mayweather
Gulfstream 4
Summer jet trips: Honolulu, Las Vegas, Utah, Atlantic City, Miami, Dallas
Travis Scott
Embraer ERJ 170-100
Summer jet trips: Miami, London, Westhampton, Oregon, Napa, Bangor-Maine, Copenhagen, Denver, Salt Lake City.
Dan Bilzerian
Gulfstream 4
Summer jet trips: Dubai, Nice, Bangor-Maine, Las Vegas, Austin, Paraguay, Tijuana
Steven Spielberg
Gulfstream G-650
Summer jet trips: Ireland, London, Martha’s Vineyard, London, Rotterdam, Westhampton.
Taylor Swift
Dassault Falcon 7x
Summer jet trips: London, Nashville, Missouri, Connecticut, Florida, Denver, Toronto
Tiger Woods
Gulfstream 5
Summer jet trips: West Palm Beach, Stockholm, Ireland, Scotland, Barcelona, Mallorca
Drake
Boeing 767-200
Summer jet trips: Stockholm, Ibiza, Nice, Barcelona, Turks & Caicos, Toronto
Oprah Winfrey
Gulfstream G650
Summer jet trips: Hawaii, Santa Barbara
Elon Musk
Gulfstream G650
Summer jet trips: Rome, Venice, Austin, Hailey-Idaho, Mykonos, Bodrum-Turkey, Westhampton, Norway, Berlin.
Jeff Bezos (@BezosJets)
Gulfstream G650
Summer jet trips: Tanzania, Paris, Switzerland, London, Seattle
Bill Gates (@gatesjets)
Gulfstream G65
Summer jet trips: Johannesburg, Nairobi, Canouan-Grenadines, Washington, Idaho, London, Marseilles, Provence, Seattle, Montana, St George-Utah, Seoul-Korea, Tokyo
George Lucas
Gulfstream 5
Summer jet trips: Marseilles, Provence, Perugia, Tuscany, San Francisco
Mark Zuckerberg (@ZuccJet)
Gulfstream G650 and Airbus Helicopter EC-145
Summer jet trips: Lake Tahoe, Idaho, Seattle, Wyoming, Austin
Lauren Powell Jobs
Gulfstream G650
Summer jet trips: Austria, Spain, Corsica, Sardinia, Paris, Naples, Trieste, Palermo, London, Venice