Jon Hemingway's Falcon 7X N888D returns to Kahului after 11 days away

Jon Hemingway's Dassault Falcon 7X, tail number N888D, flew a short local flight at Kahului International Airport on Thursday, October 22, 2026. The aircraft departed at 01:09 UTC and landed at 01:23 UTC, spending 14 minutes in the air. The trip covered a great-circle distance of 47 nautical miles, or 54 miles, with an average ground speed of 209 knots. The highest altitude recorded was 13,625 feet, and the top ground speed reached 358 knots.

The flight used about 68 US gallons of fuel, producing an estimated 652 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 1,613 miles. The Falcon 7X is an ultra-long-range trijet with a maximum range of 5,950 nautical miles and a top speed of Mach 0.90. It can seat up to 16 passengers and has a service ceiling of 51,000 feet. The aircraft is registered to Progeny 3 Inc, the Smith-Hemingway family office in Kirkland, Washington, and is based at Boeing Field in Seattle.

This was the second landing at Kahului in the tracked window for N888D. The previous landing at the same airport was on October 10, 2026, 11 days earlier. The aircraft's home base is King County International Airport, also known as Boeing Field, in Seattle. In the 30 days before this flight, N888D visited seven airports in four countries and flew about 19,728 nautical miles. The longest leg in that period was from Ferno, Italy, to Seattle on September 29, covering 4,651 nautical miles.

Jon Hemingway heads Progeny 3 Inc, the single-family office he established in 2007 in Kirkland, Washington, after decades of family ownership in Carrix, the parent of SSA Marine, the largest privately held marine terminal operator in the United States. Progeny 3 allocates across public equities, private credit, infrastructure and real estate. Its disclosed holdings include residual interests in Carrix, the White Pass & Yukon Route railroad, and mixed-use property in Seattle and Kirkland. The aircraft's registration to the family office is unusually transparent, with the tail having moved to Progeny 3 from MC Ride LLC.

The aircraft's presence at Kahului follows a pattern of travel to Hawaii. The previous leg from Seattle to Kahului on October 10 took 5 hours and 8 minutes. After that, N888D flew from Kahului to Santa Fe on October 18, then from Santa Fe to Seattle on October 21, before returning to Kahului on October 22. The aircraft spent about 4 hours on the ground in Seattle before this flight.

The Falcon 7X is a trijet with fly-by-wire controls, three living areas and an EASy cockpit. The aircraft used about 1 percent of its maximum range on this short hop. Kahului Airport's longest runway is 6,998 feet, with an elevation of 54 feet. The airport sits 2,297 nautical miles from the aircraft's home base at Boeing Field.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft completed 9 tracked flights totaling 44.1 hours in the air. Those flights produced an estimated 127,197 kilograms of CO2. Over a longer window from September 15 to October 21, the aircraft made 12 tracked flights, with Seattle as the most common destination at 5 landings.

The Falcon 7X remains at Kahului Airport, with no further flights tracked at this time.