Taylor Swift sold one of her gas-guzzling private aircraft days before she was scheduled to fly from Los Angeles to Tokyo – before making a quick turnaround to see boyfriend Travis Kelce play in the Super Bowl.
According to records obtained by DailyMail.com, the 14-time Grammy winner sold her $40 million Dassault Falcon 900LX to Missouri-based car insurance business Car Shield on January 30. The vehicle is now estimated to be worth roughly $7 million secondhand.
Triangle Real Estate LLC is listed as an additional owner in federal aviation administration documents, along with Car Shield’s CEO Nicholas Hamilton.
The car insurance company is valued approximately $150 million, and the jet’s new registered ownership address is CarShield’s headquarters in St Peters, Missouri.
Swift, 34, has faced criticism to reduce her carbon footprint after flying around the world to spend time with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Kelce, 34, while simultaneously performing the international portion of her Eras tour.
While many have urged the celebrity to curtail her travel, the globetrotting superstar is unlikely to switch to commercial aircraft due to security concerns.
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DailyMail.com can reveal that Taylor Swift is down to just one private jet after selling one of hers last month
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Swift sold her Dassault Falcon 900LX on January 30 to car insurance company Car Shield based in Missouri, DailyMail.com can reveal
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She purchased the jet for $40million in 2011, with FAA records showing that the 900LX was transferred to BoneDoc Aviation, LLC from SATA LLC in Nashville
She reportedly paid $40 million for the jet in 2011, and FAA documents reveal that the 900LX was transferred to Triangle Real Estate from SATA LLC in Nashville, which is thought to stand for her family members’ names, after her father Scott, mother Andrea, Taylor, and brother Austin.
Triangle Real Estate LLC appears to have been looking for an upgrade after selling its $400k 1976 Cessna 421 on January 25th, choosing for Swift’s larger plane instead.
Hamilton, Triangle Real Estate LLC, and CarShield did not respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.
Swift still owns her Dassault Falcon 7X, which would cost $54 million new. She has been utilizing the plane as her primary source of transportation for the Eras Tour.
According to Tennessee Secretary of State paperwork, the larger of her jets is registered to Island Jet Inc, which is affiliated with Taylor Swift Productions in Nashville, Tennessee, and SATA LLC.
She previously sold a smaller Dassault Falcon 50 jet in 2020, which she purchased for $4 million in 2012. Swift gave the earnings to charity.
It is unknown whether Swift intends to improve her fleet just in time for the longest phase of her international tour, which begins on February 16 with a performance in Australia.
Swift’s attorneys reportedly wrote a letter to Jack Sweeney, 21, demanding that he stop tracking her flights and movements.
Sweeney, a junior at the University of Central Florida, has set up many accounts to follow the flight patterns of planes and helicopters owned by celebrities, billionaires, politicians, and other prominent persons.
His accounts use publicly available data and disclose estimates of their planet-warming emissions, with the college student first confronting Elon Musk in 2022 for disclosing the details of his jet.
In a statement to DailyMail.com Sweeney 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.’
Swift’s attorneys in Washington saying the pop superstar, 34, would have ‘have no choice but to pursue any and all legal remedies’ if he did not stop his ‘stalking and harassing behavior’, according to the Washington Post.
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Swift’s attorneys wrote a letter to Jack Sweeney, 21, demanding that he stop logging her flights and locations.
It went on to say that Sweeney’s accounts had caused Swift and her family ‘immediate and irreparable harm, as well as emotional and bodily pain,’ and had increased her ‘continuous state of worry for her personal safety’.
The letter, delivered to Sweeney’s family home, stated that there was no ‘legitimate interest in or public need for this information, other than to stalk, harass, and assert dominance and control.’
Katie Wright Morrone of Venable law firm wrote the sharply worded cease and desist letter, accusing Sweeney of treating it like a ‘game’.
‘While this may seem a game to you, or an opportunity to gain fortune or celebrity, it is a life-or-death situation for our client,’ Morrone wrote.
Swift has had stalkers show up at her homes, and one man was detained last month outside her Manhattan apartment.
Her lawyers’ letter claims that there is ‘no legitimate interest in or public need for this information, other than to stalk, harass, and assert dominance and control.’
Swift’s spokeswoman said they could not comment on ongoing police investigations, but verified that the timing of the most recent arrest’suggests a relationship’.
‘His posts tell you exactly when and where she would be,’ they said.
Sweeney feels the letter is an attempt to intimidate him into not sharing public data, and that he was ‘being more careful’ with what he revealed about the pop star.
The letter arrived in December, just as Sweeney’s Facebook and Instagram accounts tracking Swift’s planes were deactivated. A second letter arrived, accusing him of ‘harassing’ the star.
He stated that the threats of legal action came at a time when Swift was receiving widespread criticism for the environmental impact of her flights while on tour for her Eras Tour and also traveling across the United States to watch her new beau Travis Kelce play in the NFL.
‘This knowledge is already out there; her team believes they can rule the world,’ Sweeney stated.
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Sweeney runs social media accounts that track the takeoffs and landings of private jets owned by Swifts and other celebrities, billionaires and politicians
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Authored by Katie Wright Morrone from Venable legal firm, the strongly worded cease and desist accused Sweeney of treating it like a ‘game’.
After being named 2022’s biggest celebrity polluter of the year, her team quickly responded, claiming that she lends out her planes and purchased twice as many carbon emissions tokens as she needed for her touring travel.
However, the singer, who unveiled her 13th album at Sunday night’s Grammys, has under further scrutiny for the planet-warming emissions of carbon dioxide generated with each flight.
According to Instagram statistics, Taylor Swift’s Jets travels have resulted in 138 tons of CO2 emissions to date.
To compensate for the environmental harm caused by her flights, the singer would need to plant 2,282 trees and allow them to mature for a decade.
According to the Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator, it is the equivalent of 17 households’ annual energy consumption or 26.9 homes’ annual electricity consumption.
The celebrity has not stated whether she would attend the Super Bowl, but she is expected to do so after traveling to see Kelce and the Chiefs defeat the Baltimore Ravens in the playoffs.
Whether she is comforting Kelce after a defeat or celebrating the Chiefs’ back-to-back Super Bowl victories, Swift must travel the world again and arrive in Australia five days later to continue her Eras Tour.
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Swift, 34, has been under pressure to reduce her carbon footprint after jet-setting across the world to spend time with Travis Kelce while on tour.
San Francisco and Kansas City will compete in the Super Bowl for the second time this decade, with the Chiefs winning Super Bowl LIV in 2020.
The Bad Blood vocalist is due to perform in Melbourne, Australia, on February 16 at 6 p.m.
She will perform three nights at the Melbourne Cricket Grounds before heading to Sydney’s Accor Stadium for four gigs beginning February 23.
After topping the 2022 pollution rankings, Taylor’s representative fired back, alleging Swift frequently allows others to fly her Falcon 7X jet around the world.
However, there is little doubt that she has been onboard the jet for the several flights between Kansas City, New York, and various other destinations since September.
The travels required 12,622 gallons of jet fuel, which is estimated to be worth $70,779.
Swift traveled from Sao Paulo, Brazil to Kansas City, with a stopover in Tampa, Florida.
The drive used 4,151 gallons of petrol, which is estimated to be worth $23,250.
Swift’s spokeswoman told DailyMail.com that she was attempting to reduce carbon emissions from her jets by traveling less frequently than in past years.
‘Before the tour began in March 2023, Taylor purchased more than double the carbon credits required to offset all tour travel,’ the representative explained.
Taylor’s surplus credits might have covered her latest romance, which arose in the midst of her sell-out tour, with her flights to support Kelce increasing her carbon emissions in addition to her planned tour travels.
According to FAA documents, the Falcon 50’s registration was transferred from SATA LLC in Nashville to a new business called BoneDoc Aviation LLC on March 16.