Daniel Baty's Challenger 350 returns to Seattle from Spokane in 46 minutes

Daniel Baty's Bombardier Challenger 350, tail number N443DB, flew from Spokane International Airport to King County International Airport in Seattle on Sunday, November 1, 2026. The aircraft departed Spokane at 18:10 UTC and landed at Boeing Field at 18:56 UTC. The flight took 46 minutes.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 195 nautical miles, or 224 miles. The aircraft reached a top ground speed of 401 knots and climbed to a highest altitude of 20,000 feet. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 192 US gallons of fuel and produced roughly 1,840 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 4,554 miles. The Challenger 350 is a super midsize jet with a range of 3,200 nautical miles, a ceiling of 45,000 feet, and seating for up to 10 passengers.

The flight used about 6 percent of the aircraft's range. The average ground speed was 255 knots. Spokane International Airport has a longest runway of 11,002 feet at an elevation of 2,376 feet. Boeing Field's longest runway is 10,007 feet at 21 feet elevation.

This was the ninth tracked landing at Boeing Field in the 30 days before this flight. The last previous landing at Seattle was on October 31, two days earlier. The aircraft's home base is Boeing Field, and its usual destinations include Palm Springs, Hailey, Santa Ana, and Boise. In the same 24-hour window, two other tracked aircraft landed at Boeing Field: Rich Barton's Dassault Falcon 7X landed about 22 hours before this flight, and Charles Simonyi's Dassault Falcon 8X landed about 18 hours before.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft made 16 tracked flights covering about 7,632 nautical miles. It visited 10 airports. The longest leg in that period was 1,185 nautical miles from Omaha to Seattle on October 30. The aircraft spent about 24.2 hours in the air, producing an estimated 58,139 kilograms of CO2.

Daniel Baty built two of the largest senior-housing operators in the United States. He chaired Holiday Retirement from 1987 until Fortress Investment Group bought it in 2007 for more than $6 billion, and founded Emeritus Corporation in 1993, which grew into the country's largest for-profit assisted-living chain before merging into Brookdale Senior Living in 2014. In 1989 he started Columbia Pacific Management with his sons Stan and Brandon, which produced Columbia Pacific Advisors and Columbia Pacific Wealth Management. He stepped back from day-to-day work there in May 2021. No reliable net-worth figure is published.

The aircraft is a 2015 Bombardier Challenger 350, serial number 20552. It is an upgrade to the Challenger 300 with improved engines and avionics. Its top speed is Mach 0.83, or 470 knots. The estimated fuel burn is 250 US gallons per hour.

The aircraft is registered to Geoduck Aviation II LLC, with Columbia Pacific Management as the registered agent and Stan Baty as officer. The company's address is 1910 Fairview Avenue East in Seattle, the same address as Columbia Pacific Management. The aircraft's home base at Boeing Field is about 5 miles from that address.