Jon Hemingway's Falcon 7X lands in Thermal the week of the Coachella Valley economic summit

The aircraft's registration to Progeny 3 Inc at the Kirkland address is an unusually clean attribution for this roster, as noted in the flight's tracking data. The tail moved to the family office from MC Ride LLC, and it is based at Boeing Field, sharing a hangar row with the Gates, Allen, and Simonyi aircraft. This leg from Las Vegas to Thermal, however, is the first on file for this owner, so there is no prior pattern to confirm a regular desert circuit. Still, the choice of Jacqueline Cochran Regional over Palm Springs International suggests a preference for discretion and shorter taxi times, a common trait among family-office operators.

This is not Hemingway's first brush with the Coachella Valley's investment scene. Progeny 3's disclosed holdings include mixed-use property in Seattle and Kirkland, but the family office has shown a willingness to explore new geographies where infrastructure and real estate intersect. The forum's focus on water rights and renewable energy corridors would be a natural fit for a balance sheet that has historically allocated across private credit and infrastructure. Whether Hemingway was aboard, the aircraft's presence in Thermal this week places the family office in the middle of a regional conversation about how private capital can fund desert logistics — a topic that has gained traction since the 2025 expansion of the Coachella Valley's rail-served industrial parks.

For now, the jet sits on the ramp at Thermal, a 7X with a clean registration and a single flight leg to its name. If Hemingway was on board, he would have had a short hop from Las Vegas — a city that hosts its own share of family-office conferences — to a desert town that is quietly becoming a second home for infrastructure-minded capital. The timing is suggestive, but the flight itself is the only fact. Whether the trip was business, pleasure, or a bit of both, the aircraft's presence in the Coachella Valley this week is a small, telling data point in the larger map of where private money is looking next.