The shortest lived listings on the board belong to this aircraft. A GIV-SP empty leg appears with a few days notice and is often gone within one. Blink and you have missed it.
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Compare the time on the board figure above with the same figure on the plain GIV page. The SP's listings last a fraction as long, and a far larger share are gone inside 24 hours. Days of notice and hours of visibility leave a window you will not hit by looking occasionally. Set the alert for your route and let the flight come to you.
The pattern is a shuttle rather than a scatter: Bowling Green to Teterboro and back, Van Nuys to Teterboro, almost all of it inside the United States. If Teterboro is one end of your trip, this is one of the heavy jets to keep an eye on.
Published figures are all but absent on the GIV-SP, as on the GIV, the G450 and the GV. The enquiry is the only way to find out what one of these costs, and asking more than one operator is the only comparison available.
Specification: Gulfstream IV/SP, GlobalAir. The SP was the 1993 upgrade of the GIV and production ran to 2002.
The IV-SP of 1993 was the Gulfstream IV with structural strengthening for a higher landing weight, allowing a full cabin to land with a full fuel load, plus cabin and systems refinements. Over 300 were built until the G450 replaced it in 2002 and it remains the most numerous large Gulfstream in charter fleets. Operators list it separately from the plain IV, and on this board it behaves very differently, so it has its own page.
| Manufacturer | Gulfstream Aerospace |
|---|---|
| Engines | 2 x Rolls Royce TAY 611-8 |
| Passengers | 14 maximum |
| Cabin | 45 ft 1 in long, 7 ft 3 in wide, 6 ft 1 in high |
| Baggage | 169 cu ft |
| Range | 4,166 nm maximum, 3,880 nm on the normal profile |
| Maximum cruise | 500 knots |
| Ceiling | 45,000 ft |
| Take-off distance | 5,450 ft |
| Landing distance | 4,458 ft |
| Maximum take-off weight | 74,600 lb |
| History | in service 1993, production 1992 and 2002, Over 300 built |
Source: GlobalAir.