Counted among the world’s richest men, Elon Musk quite frequently makes it into the news for purchasing a few of the world’s most costly things. Post taking over Twitter, Inc. for around Rs 3,61,801 crore. Musk has purchased for himself an uber-luxurious private jet costing hundreds of crores.
Elon Musk’s taking over Twitter is the biggest ever leveraged purchase of a technology company in history. This deal has cost around $9 billion (Rs 7,36,73 crore approx) landing in the billionaire’s net worth, according to Bloomberg. Even after that, he continues to make his place as the world’s richest man with a mind-boggling net worth of about $190B (Rs 1,56,02,93 crore approx).
Immediately after officially acquiring Twitter, Musk ordered a private jet: a Gulfstream G700, one of the flagship planes of the company, as per the Mint. The delivery of the uber-luxurious private jet is supposedly about to happen around 2023.
The recent Twitter CEO is already an owner of four private Gulfstream jets, per Zee News. All his private planes are registered to Falcon Landing, an LLC connected to SpaceX and Tesla. The G700 has costly interiors considering five living areas, two restrooms and 20 oval windows. Decked up with two Rolls-Royce engines, the G700 has a range of up to 7,500 nautical miles and additionally provides a dual head-up presentation for safe landings and its built-in Wi-Fi system.
This private jet can fly at a height of about 51,000 feet and provides a space of up to 19 people. Musk’s Gulfstream G700 is worth a mind-boggling $78 million (Rs 640 crore approx), according to Mint and is supposed to sell off his current jet, the G650ER.
Musk frequently uses his private plane for travelling. Back in the year 2018, he flew more than 150,000 miles on his G650ER, according to Washington Post. Additionally, according to them, the billionaire flew 8,304 miles with the G650ER in his first week as the owner of Twitter. As per TOI, the Gulfstream G650ER is worth $66.5 million (Rs 509 crore approx).
Musk is the founder, CEO, and chief engineer of the well-known SpaceX, and the CEO of the successful Tesla, Inc. A very recent owner of Twitter, founder of The Boring Company and also being co-founder of Neuralink, OpenAI, and Zip2. Aerospace company SpaceX is as of today valued at $74 billion (Rs 60,72,58 crore approx). Infrastructure and tunnel construction services company, The Boring Company, is valued at $5.7 billion (Rs 4,67,83 crore approx).
Multinational automotive and clean energy company Tesla’s market cap currently is $670 billion (Rs 5,48,66,09 crore approx), per Yahoo, while Neuralink, a neurotechnology company that designs implantable brain-machine interfaces, as of today is valued at $363 million (Rs 2778 crore approx), per TOI.
