Data: Vivek Ramaswamy has spent nearly 40% of 2026 outside of Ohio
Some out-of-state travel is expected for any serious gubernatorial candidate. But Ramaswamy is unprecedented in the scope and depth of his private air travel.
Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy has used two private jets to gallivant outside Ohio in a historically unprecedented way in 2026.
Last August, Signal Ohio reported that Ramaswamy preferred to travel the state in a 2011 Cessna 750 Citation X with tail number N411NB.
In June, The Rooster exclusively reported that Ramaswamy had ditched his ~$5 million Cessna for a ~$10 million 2006 Bombardier Global 5000 with tail number N989DM.
According to federal flight records for the two jets, Ramaswamy has spent a staggering 79 of a possible 201 days outside Ohio in 2026. That equates to 38.9% of the year.
Ramaswamy has spent nearly 15% of the calendar year abroad, including the infamous July 4 flight to Paris after he turned his neighborhood holiday celebration into a campaign stop to overcompensate for hitting the tarmac before the first firework went off.
To compile the data, The Rooster cross-referenced the flight records with Ramaswamy’s campaign event calendar and his Twitter profile.
N411NB: Cessna Citation X
Jan. 08-10: Turks & Caicos
Jan 15: Teterboro, New Jersey
Feb 25-26: Salt Lake City, Utah
Feb. 26-March 09: Indianapolis, Indiana
March 09-10: Terboro, New Jersey
March 12-13: West Palm Beach, Florida
March 15: Teterboro, New Jersey
N98DM: Bombardier Global 5000
March 20-April 5: Bahamas, Turks & Caicos, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Greece, and Portugal
April 11-12: Orlando, Florida
April 18-19: Teterboro, New Jersey
April 26: Raleigh, North Carolina
May 6-7: Fort Lauderdale and Miami, Florida
May 7-12: Hartford, Connecticut
May 13: Washington, D.C.
May 14-18: Scottsdale, Arizona
May 22-25: Salt Lake City, Utah
June 11: Nashville, Tennessee
June 11-14: Carlsbad, California
June 16: Chicago, Illinois
June 21: Bowling Green, Kentucky
June 23: Washington, D.C.
July 4-12: Paris, France and Geneva, Switzerland
July 15: Atlanta, Georgia
July 18-19: Hilton Head, S.C.
Using the latter two sources, we were able to eliminate two extensive out-of-state trips from the flight logs: April 26 to May 5, when Ramaswamy’s jet moved from Columbus to Florida, and May 26 to June 10, when Ramaswamy’s jet and unknown passengers went to Hartford, Connecticut.
We were also able to eliminate certain campaign events that didn’t feature Ramaswamy and overlapped with his apparent travel.
For example: March 28, when Ramaswamy’s running mate Rob McColley headlined the Lake County Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day Dinner while Ramaswamy was in Greece.
And on April 18, when McColley, not Ramaswamy, was the Fayette County Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day Dinner, Ramaswamy was in the New York City metro area, where he lived for years after graduating from law school.
The Rooster also didn’t include Ramaswamy’s June 26 flight to Parkersburg, West Virginia, in this tally, since it was in service of a campaign fundraiser hosted by Jim Vuksic, the owner of Powerflo Solutions, a Southeastern Ohio company that profiteers on data centers.
All other documented travel aligns with gaps in Ramaswamy’s campaign and social media timelines, including a three-day jaunt in June to Carlsbad, California, where a random Twitter user spotted him at Legoland:
Some of this out-of-state travel would be expected of a gubernatorial candidate, even one not as allegedly rich as Ramaswamy.
For example, as The Rooster previously reported, Ramaswamy jet-setted to Washington, D.C., in May—a month when he largely did nothing after securing the nomination over Hitler connoisseur Casey Putsch—to meet with the U.S. Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, “Doctor” Mehmet Oz.
A day later, Ramaswamy boarded his private jet for a four-day excursion to Scottsdale, Arizona, where, at least part of the time, he met with executives at Turning Point USA, the billionaire-funded propaganda network ostensibly aimed at winning the hearts and minds of American college students.
Ramaswamy headlined a Turning Point USA event on Ohio State’s campus in April.
We also know that one of his two trips to Salt Lake City, Utah—the one from May 22 to 25—was to keynote a data center summit.
However, most of the items on the out-of-state itinerary don’t appear to have any connection to Ramaswamy’s increasingly competitive campaign for governor.
For example, last Wednesday, July 15, Ramaswamy took a day trip to Atlanta, Georgia—a time and location that coincided with the World Cup semifinal between Argentina and England.
Just this past week, from July 18 to 19, Ramaswamy traveled to Hilton Head, South Carolina, a luxury vacation spot preferred by hordes of Ohioans—albeit not ones who travel there by private jet.
There are also three international vacations through nine countries. Individually, they would be bucket-list trips for many residents in a state where the median annual income is approximately $70K.
Ramaswamy spent an estimated $145,000 on jet fuel for those international trips alone.
Campaign records show that, since Dec. 30, 2025, Ramaswamy’s campaign has spent $129,644 with TDPX Aircraft Solutions, the registered owner of the Global Bombardier 5000.
The Rooster’s Ramaswamy dossier
Hard to imagine someone who lives like this settling down and spending most of his time in Ohio for 4 long years.
Inquiring minds want to know:
Was Vivak Ramaswamy holding a bubble wand at Lego land?