Goldman Sachs lands in Washington the week it declares a dealmaking renaissance.

Goldman Sachs flew from Teterboro to Washington Dulles on Tuesday evening, a 43-minute hop aboard its Gulfstream G280 (N280WS) that landed just after 4 p.m. local time. The short-haul trip, covering roughly 215 nautical miles, is a familiar corridor for the firm’s senior executives shuttling between its New York headquarters and the corridors of federal power.

The same week, Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO David Solomon is championing what he called a “dealmaking renaissance” in 2026, per a March speech at the UBS Financial Services Conference covered by the financial press, and reinforced by blowout first-quarter earnings that saw investment banking fees surge. With the backlog of M&A deals at its highest level in four years, per the Motley Fool’s review of the Q1 earnings call, Solomon and his team are likely in Washington to press the firm’s bullish outlook with regulators, clients, or on Capitol Hill — a pattern of face-to-face lobbying that often follows such public declarations.

The G280, delivered new to Goldman Sachs in October 2020, is the firm’s mid-range workhorse, built for the dense Northeast corridor. Recent flights show the aircraft has been pulling double duty: a swing through California and Alaska last week, then back to Teterboro, and now to Dulles. That kind of tempo — boardroom in San Francisco, policy in Washington — is the physical signature of a bank betting that scale, not caution, will define the rest of the year.