WWE’s corporate jet is on the market, and Jim Ross has a lot of hours on it.
The 2008 Bombardier Global 5000, tail number N247WE, has been listed by the Hagerty Jet Group on behalf of WWE with an asking price of $10.5 million. It was fully refurbished in December 2023 and features black paint with red accents, a 13-passenger cabin, a forward galley, a conference group and Starlink internet. Per the listing, the WWE logos come off before the sale closes.
Asked about it on Grilling JR, Ross said the plane changed his life on the road.
“Oh yeah, a bunch of times. That was my way to work, way home,” Ross said. “Getting that plane was a blessing for a lot of us that had schedules. We’d do TV on Tuesday night and record SmackDown, then my goal is to get on that airplane on Tuesday night after SmackDown, get home and sleep in my bed for a few minutes, it seems like, and then carry on.”
He said the lesson in it applies to any company.
“It made travel better and easier, and anything you can do for talent or staff, helping them with their travel, do it,” Ross said.
Asked whether Vince McMahon had any quirks in the air, Ross said nothing out of the ordinary, then described McMahon breaking into dance.
“Not really. Nothing abnormal above and beyond what you’d expect. He’s sitting in the same seat, and he had his food specifically selected for him,” Ross said. “So sometimes he’d get in a dancing mood.”
Pressed on that, Ross doubled down.
“Dancing, dancing. He’d turn the sound up, and there’d be a song he would like, and he might just start dancing,” Ross said. “I didn’t say it was normal. I just, you asked, I answered.”
He could not name the song that set McMahon off.
“I can’t think of what that might be, but I’m sure there was, and I don’t remember what it was,” Ross said. “I didn’t commit all of his imaginations to memory.”
Shown photos of the cabin, Ross had no trouble identifying which seat was McMahon’s.
“The one that’s closest to us on the left,” Ross said. “Every time.”
As for who else was regularly aboard, Ross named Bruce Prichard and longtime WWE director Kerwin Silfies, along with office staff and whichever talent had production work booked on the other end of a TV trip, which he said gave them a chance to earn a little extra.
Ross will not be flying private to his next booking.
“I’m getting ready to go to Minneapolis for an appearance coming up soon, and I’m looking forward to that,” Ross said. “But I’m not going to ride one of these. I’m going to ride on a Delta. I’m not complaining either.”
WWE has since replaced the aircraft.
