- Swift’s N898TS jet is now registered to Missouri-based Triangle Real Estate LLC
Taylor Swift has parted ways with one of her private jets just weeks after threatening to sue a college student for ‘stalking and harassing’ by publicly tracking her flights.
The singer, 34, sold her luxurious ‘Number 13’ private jet, which in new condition is valued at around $44million, to Missouri-based Triangle Real Estate LLC on January 30, Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) data has revealed.
Conditions surrounding the sale are unclear, but the Dassault Falcon 900 made a 28-mile journey from Illinois to St Louis the day after the sale, flight tracking data showed, suggesting it is already in the possession of its new owner.
The FFA also issued the firm, which shares an address with car insurance company Car Shield, a registration certification for the plane on Tuesday this week.
The sale of the 12-seater plane, the smaller of the two jets owned by Swift, comes just weeks after the Anti-Hero hitmaker’s lawyers sent a letter to Jack Sweeney demanding that the 21-year-old stop logging her flights and locations.
Sweeney, a junior at the University of Central Florida, has run several accounts that track the flight paths of planes and helicopters owned by celebrities, billionaires, politicians and other public figures.
SATA LLC, a firm with the same address as Taylor Swift Productions in Nashville, registered the Dassault Falcon 900 with the FAA in October 2009, according to FAA data.
The aircraft featured the registration number N898TS, ending in Swift’s initials ‘TS’ and seemingly referencing her birth year, 1989 – which is also the title of her most successful album.
The plane was sold on January 30 and was registered to its new owner on February 6. It is unclear how much Triangle Real Estate LLC paid for the plane, but the plane is estimated to be worth around $7million second-hand.
The 14-time Grammy award winner appears to still be in possession of her Dassault 7X jet, which is registered to Island Jet Inc. – another company that shares the same address as Taylor Swift Productions.
The Dassault 7X features a slightly larger cabin than the Falcon 900, carrying up to 16 passengers, and is designed for longer haul flights. It’s normal range is reportedly around 6,850 miles.
Tracking data revealed that her 7X plane was last recorded flying on January 28 from Baltimore to Nashville.
She previously sold a smaller Dassault Falcon 50 jet in 2020, after she purchased it in 2012 for $4million. Swift donated the proceeds to charity.
Swift’s travel habits have made headlines in recent weeks after she threatened legal action against Sweeney, who runs social media accounts tracking her private jets movements – and the amount of CO2 they produce.
His accounts use publicly available data, and also share the estimates of their planet warning emissions – with the college student first going head to head with Elon Musk in 2022 for sharing his jet’s details.
But Swift’s attorneys in Washington hit him with with a cease-and-desist letter in December that blamed his automated tracking of her private jet for tipping off stalkers as to her location.
In the letter, attorneys from the law firm Venable accused Sweeney of effectively providing ‘individuals intent on harming her, or with nefarious or violent intentions, a roadmap to carry out their plans.’
Authored by Katie Wright Morrone, the letter said lawyers would have ‘have no choice but to pursue any and all legal remedies’ if Sweeney did not stop his ‘stalking and harassing behavior’.
The strongly-worded cease and desist accused Sweeney of treating it like a ‘game’.
‘While this may be a game to you, or an avenue that you hope will earn you wealth or fame, it is a life-or-death matter for our Client,’ Morrone added.
The legal letter further accuses Sweeney of ‘disregarding the personal safety of others’; ‘willful and repeated harassment of our client’; and ‘intentional, offensive, and outrageous conduct and consistent violations of our client’s privacy.’
Such statements are difficult to square with the fact that Sweeney’s automated tracking accounts merely repackage public data provided by the FAA.
Regardless, the letter demanded that Sweeney ‘immediately stop providing information about our client’s location to the public.’
Swift has seen stalkers show up outside her homes, with one man arrested last month outside her townhouse in Manhattan.
A spokesperson for Swift previously said they cannot comment on ongoing police investigations, but confirmed that the timing of the most recent arrest ‘suggests a connection’.
Sweeney, in a statement issued to DailyMail.com on Tuesday, said: ‘I think it’s important to note that nowhere do I intend for harm. I actually think Swift has some good songs.
‘I believe in transparency and public information.’
He believes that the letter is an attempt to scare him from sharing public data, adding that he was ‘being more careful’ with what he shared about the pop star.
The letter came in December, around the time Sweeney’s accounts tracking Swift’s jets on Facebook and Instagram were disabled. A second letter followed, accusing him of ‘harassing’ the star.
He said that the threats of legal action came at a time where Swift was facing a huge backlash over the environmental impacts of her flights while on the road for her Era’s Tour and also jetting across the US to watch her new beau Travis Kelce play in the NFL.
‘This information is already out there, her team thinks they can control the world’, Sweeney said.
Swift has been under pressure to cut down on her carbon emissions after jet-setting across the US to spend time with Kansas Chief’s tight end Travis Kelce, 34, while also performing the international leg of her Era’s tour.
While many have called on the star to cut down on her travel, it is unlikely that the globetrotting superstar will switch to commercial flights due over security fears – with many speculating she will use charter jets instead.
After being crowned 2022’s biggest celebrity polluter of the year, her team were quick to hit back, saying that she loans her planes out and also bought double the amount of carbon emissions tokens than she needed for her touring travel.
But the singer, who announced her 13th album at Sunday night’s Grammy awards, has been hit with a fresh barraged of scrutiny over her planet-warming emissions of carbon dioxide released with every flight.
Based on statistics tracked by Taylor Swift’s Jets on Instagram, the hitmaker’s trips have produced 138 tons of CO2 emission to date. It is the equivalent of the energy used by 17 houses in one year, or the electricity use of 26.9 homes for one year, according to the Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator.
