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

Jon Hemingway's aircraft was tracked flying from Las Vegas to Thermal, California, on September 15, 2026, a 32-minute hop that touched down at Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport at 15:27 UTC. The Dassault Falcon 7X, registered to Progeny 3 Inc, the Kirkland-based family office Hemingway established in 2007, departed from Harry Reid International at 14:55 UTC, cruising at 24,025 feet with a max ground speed of 480 knots. The flight is notable not for its length but for its destination: Thermal is the gateway to the Coachella Valley, a region that has become a quiet hub for family-office capital over the past decade.

If aboard, Jon Hemingway would arrive the same week the Desert Infrastructure and Investment Forum convenes in Palm Springs, a two-day event that per the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership's September 2026 agenda focuses on public-private partnerships in water, energy, and transportation. The forum, scheduled for September 16-17, draws principals from single-family offices and institutional investors with exposure to California's inland logistics corridors. Hemingway's Progeny 3 holds residual interests in Carrix, the parent of SSA Marine, the largest privately held marine terminal operator in the U.S., and the timing would suggest a possible alignment with the forum's panel on port-to-inland supply chain connectivity.

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.