Craig McCaw's Cessna Caravan N688MC flies from Everett to Everett in a 0-minute hop

Craig McCaw's Cessna 208 Caravan, tail number N688MC, landed at Seattle Paine Field International Airport (KPAE) in Everett, Washington, on Friday, November 13, 2026, at 00:27 UTC. The aircraft departed from the same airport at 00:27 UTC, making the flight 0 minutes long. This was a short hop that did not leave the ground.

The great-circle distance for this leg was 0 nautical miles. The aircraft's highest altitude recorded was 900 feet, and it reached a top ground speed of 62 knots. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 0 US gallons of jet fuel, producing about 3 kg of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 7 miles. The Cessna 208 Caravan is a single-engine turboprop with a fuel burn of 55 US gallons per hour.

This was the third landing at Everett by any of McCaw's aircraft in the tracked window. The last one was on November 9, 2026, three days before this flight, also by N688MC. The home base on file is King County International Airport - Boeing Field (KBFI) in Seattle, 23 nautical miles from Paine Field. 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 Everett for about three days before this flight.

In the 30 days before this flight, all four of McCaw's aircraft made 28 flights totaling 48.4 hours in the air. They visited 33 airports in five countries and flew about 17,342 nautical miles. The longest leg was a 5,340-nautical-mile trip from Chicago/West Chicago to Caselle Torinese on October 30, 2026, flown by the Bombardier Challenger 604, tail number N222MC.

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. He runs Eagle River Inc. and co-chairs Pendrell. No news outlet reported a scheduled public appearance or board meeting for McCaw near Everett on this date.

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 Challenger 604 had been busy in the days before the Caravan's short hop. On November 8 it flew from Teterboro to Santa Barbara, a 5-hour 5-minute leg of 2,185 nautical miles. Two days earlier it had crossed the Atlantic from La Rochelle to Teterboro in 8 hours 7 minutes, covering 3,085 nautical miles. The Challenger also flew from Santa Barbara to Victoria on November 10, a 2-hour 5-minute trip of 870 nautical miles.