CARACAS – The Gulfstream G500 used by acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez for her trip to New York spent several days in Venezuela and made earlier flights through Curaçao and San Tomé before eventually carrying her to the United States, according to flight-tracking records.
The aircraft, registered in the United States as N818CA and operated by Colombian aviation company Helistar S.A.S., arrived in Caracas on September 15 after traveling from Bogotá via Curaçao.
Two days later, on September 17, the aircraft flew from Caracas to San Tomé in Venezuela’s Anzoátegui state. It remained there for approximately three hours before returning to the Venezuelan capital.
On September 18, the Gulfstream made another international movement, flying from Caracas to Curaçao before returning to Maiquetía International Airport.
The aircraft remained there until Sunday night, when it departed on the journey that ultimately transported Rodríguez to the New York area.
Rodríguez arrived Monday at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey to participate in the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly. She is also scheduled to meet U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday.
The movements are particularly notable for Curaçao because flight records indicate that the island featured twice in the aircraft’s movements shortly before Rodríguez’s trip to the United States.
Before arriving in the region, N818CA had spent more than a month in Savannah, Georgia, at Gulfstream facilities, according to specialized aircraft-tracking records.
N818CA is a long-range Gulfstream G500 with serial number 72078. Aviation records identify Helistar as its operator.
The flight history provides a timeline of the aircraft’s movements but does not establish the purpose of each individual flight or identify who was aboard during the earlier trips to Curaçao and San Tomé.
The records also do not establish who chartered or paid for the aircraft used to transport Rodríguez to the United States.
Those distinctions are important: the available tracking information documents where the aircraft traveled, but does not by itself establish who arranged the flights, who traveled aboard the aircraft on each segment or the reason for the stops in Curaçao.