Becton Dickinson Falcon 7X returns to New Jersey after quick New England hop

Becton Dickinson flew from Westford Airstrip in Massachusetts to Morristown Municipal Airport on Thursday, May 28, 2026, a 46-minute hop in its Falcon 7X, N294X. The aircraft departed at 2:52 p.m. Eastern and touched down at home base shortly before 3:39 p.m., having climbed to 16,100 feet and maxed out at 366 knots ground speed.

The destination is the company's home base. Morristown Municipal sits minutes from BD’s Franklin Lakes, N.J., global headquarters. A real-time web search for events in north Jersey on May 28 — concerts at Prudential Center, sports at MetLife Stadium, public hearings in Trenton, regulatory filings — turned up no major public event that would explain a business flight. The Massachusetts origin, Westford, is a small general-aviation field near BD’s biosciences and diagnostics facilities in the Lowell-Boston corridor, where the company maintains R&D and manufacturing operations.

The flight appears to be a straightforward shuttle from a BD facility in New England back to headquarters. Recent flight history shows a similar pattern: N294X flew from Morristown to Manchester–Boston Regional Airport on May 26 and from Morristown to Westford on May 25. The aircraft has also been routed to Jacksonville, Fla.; San Francisco; Las Vegas; and Salt Lake City in the past two weeks, reflecting BD’s broad operational footprint rather than a single newsworthy event.