Craig McCaw's Challenger 604 N222MC flies from Victoria to San Jose in 1 hour 45 minutes

Craig McCaw's Bombardier Challenger 604, tail number N222MC, landed at Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport (KSJC) on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, at 00:25 UTC. The aircraft departed from Victoria International Airport (CYYJ) at 22:40 UTC, making the flight 1 hour and 45 minutes long. This was a cross-border hop from Canada to the United States.

The great-circle distance for this leg was 682 nautical miles, or 785 miles. The aircraft's average ground speed was 390 knots, and it reached a top ground speed of 479 knots. The highest altitude recorded was 31,025 feet. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 490 US gallons of jet fuel, producing about 4,703 kg of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 11,642 miles. The Challenger 604 is a large-cabin jet with a range of 3,900 nautical miles, a ceiling of 41,000 feet, and seating for up to 12 passengers.

This was the first landing at San Jose by any of McCaw's aircraft in the tracked window. The home base on file is King County International Airport - Boeing Field (KBFI) in Seattle, 611 nautical miles from San Jose. Other usual destinations include Friedman Memorial Airport in Hailey, Jackson Hole Airport, Palm Springs International Airport, San Francisco International Airport, Aspen-Pitkin County Airport, and Juneau International Airport. The aircraft had been on the ground at Victoria for about 3 hours before this flight, following a 2-hour-5-minute trip from Santa Barbara on November 10. Two other notable aircraft landed at San Jose in the 24 hours before this landing: Laurene Powell Jobs' Gulfstream G650 landed about 3 hours earlier, and a Disney Gulfstream G650ER landed about 2 hours earlier.

Craig McCaw, born 1949 in Centralia, was the second of J. Elroy McCaw's four sons and inherited a small cable system when his father died in 1969. He spent the 1980s buying cellular licences nobody else wanted and assembled them into McCaw Cellular Communications, which AT&T bought in 1994 for $11.5B. He then took a controlling stake in Nextel in 1995, co-founded the Teledesic satellite venture with Bill Gates in 1994, built NEXTLINK/XO Communications, and founded Clearwire in 2004, chairing it until the end of 2010. He runs Eagle River Inc. and co-chairs Pendrell. He sat on The Nature Conservancy's global board from 2010 to 2022. He bought Kenny G's Hunts Point estate in 1999 for a reported $20M-plus, and paid $35M for a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO in 2012. No news reports link this specific flight to any business meeting or personal event near San Jose.

The aircraft is registered to Flight Management LLC in Kirkland, Washington, not to McCaw personally. The 'MC' tail numbers on his four aircraft align with that address, but no filing or news report confirms the ownership. The flight is part of a pattern of cross-country and international trips in recent days. The Challenger 604 arrived at San Jose just after midnight UTC, completing a routine hop from Victoria.