Danaher lands near Washington after CEO's Las Vegas conference appearance

Danaher's Falcon 900B, tail N886DC, flew from Laurence G Hanscom Field in Bedford, Massachusetts, to a private airfield near Washington, D.C., on the evening of May 13, 2026, a 1-hour-13-minute hop at 26,100 feet. The aircraft had departed the same Washington-area location for Boston the previous day.

The trip lands the same week Danaher's chief executive, Rainer M. Blair, presented at the Bank of America Securities Health Care Conference in Las Vegas on May 13, per a company announcement [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/danaher-to-present-at-bank-of-america-securities-healthcare-conference-302764538.html). The Boston leg likely positioned Blair for a separate engagement before returning to headquarters. Danaher, the life-sciences and diagnostics holding company behind Beckman Coulter and Cepheid, has been navigating a steady recovery in bioprocessing and diagnostics, reporting first-quarter adjusted EPS growth of 9.5% in April [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/danaher-reports-first-quarter-2026-results-302747922.html).

The pattern is routine for the Washington-based firm: the Falcon 900B frequently shuttles between Dulles and Boston, Chicago, Houston, San Francisco, and European hubs. This week's itinerary — Boston to Washington — fits a standard executive return from a conference circuit, with no unusual detours.