Jon Hemingway's Falcon 7X N888D flies a two-minute local hop at Kahului

Jon Hemingway's Dassault Falcon 7X, tail number N888D, flew a local flight at Kahului International Airport on Saturday, November 14, 2026. The aircraft departed at 22:58 UTC and landed at 23:00 UTC, spending two minutes in the air. The trip covered a great-circle distance of 9 nautical miles, or 10 miles. The highest altitude recorded was 3,475 feet, and the top ground speed reached 209 knots.

The flight used about 12 US gallons of fuel, producing an estimated 114 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 281 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, 35 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 six airports in one country and flew about 11,012 nautical miles. The longest leg in that period was from Kahului to Santa Fe on October 18, covering 2,780 nautical miles. The aircraft spent about five hours on the ground in Seattle before this flight.

The aircraft is a trijet with fly-by-wire controls, three living areas and an EASy cockpit. It burns an estimated 300 US gallons of fuel per hour. Kahului Airport's longest runway is 6,998 feet, at an elevation of 54 feet. The distance from the home base at Boeing Field to Kahului is 2,297 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 Falcon 7X remains at Kahului Airport, with no further flights tracked at this time.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft made 10 flights totaling 25.3 hours in the air, producing an estimated 72,816 kilograms of CO2. The most common destinations in the tracked window from September 15 to November 14 were Seattle with eight landings, Las Vegas with two, and Moses Lake with two. Recent flights include a trip from Las Vegas to Seattle on November 7 lasting 2 hours 25 minutes, and a flight from Kahului to Seattle on October 22 that took 4 hours 46 minutes.