David Sacks flies to Fresno the week of a Senate crypto markup

David Sacks flew from Fresno Yosemite International Airport to Fresno Yosemite International Airport on May 18, a 26-minute hop that maxed out at 4,225 feet and 177.8 knots. The short, looping departure and arrival suggests a local test flight or a repositioning of his Cirrus SR22T, tail number N75WW, rather than a trip to a new destination.

The same week, Sacks is in the middle of a regulatory push: the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry voted to advance cryptocurrency market structure legislation, per a Finviz report. Sacks, who serves as Trump’s AI and crypto czar, posted on X that the vote brings the country “one step closer to establishing the necessary regulatory framework to make the United States the crypto capital of the world.” The bill now heads to the full Senate.

Sacks’s recent flight history shows a pattern of shuttling between the San Francisco Bay Area (KSFO) and the Fresno area (KFAT), likely tied to his venture capital firm Craft Ventures’ new Austin office and his own relocation to Texas in December, as covered by Yahoo Finance. The Fresno stop may be a convenient refueling or storage point for the SR22T between his California and Texas bases.