Jon Shirley's Dassault Falcon 7X N74JK flies from San Sepolcro to Venice in 18 minutes

Jon Shirley's Dassault Falcon 7X, tail number N74JK, departed San Sepolcro Airfield (LIQF) in Italy on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, at 07:35 UTC. It landed at Venice Marco Polo Airport (LIPZ) at 07:53 UTC after 18 minutes in the air. The aircraft is a 2011 model, c/n 136, and is managed by Executive Jet Management, NetJets' managed-aircraft arm.

The Falcon 7X is a trijet with fly-by-wire controls, three living areas and an EASy cockpit. Its top speed is Mach 0.90, or 497 knots. The aircraft used about 2 percent of its total range on this flight.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 99 nautical miles, or 114 miles. The aircraft's average ground speed was 324 knots, with a top speed of 419 knots and a highest altitude of 14,025 feet. The flight burned about 76 US gallons of fuel, producing an estimated 733 kilograms of CO2. The Falcon 7X is an Ultra Long Range jet with a range of 5,950 nautical miles, a ceiling of 51,000 feet, and seating for up to 16 passengers.

This was the second tracked landing at Venice in the past 30 days. The previous one occurred on October 16, 2026, when N74JK arrived from Everett, Washington, after a 10-hour, 1-minute flight covering 4,714 nautical miles. The aircraft's home base is King County International Airport - Boeing Field (KBFI) in Seattle. Over the last nine tracked flights, the most common destinations were Everett (three landings) and Teterboro (two landings).

Jon Shirley, born in 1938, was president and chief operating officer of Microsoft from 1983 to 1990, overseeing the company's IPO and the construction of its Redmond campus. He remained on the board until 2008. Shirley and his late wife Mary assembled a major private collection of works by Alexander Calder, which was donated to the Seattle Art Museum in 2023. He remarried in 2016 to Kim Richter Shirley, and the couple are listed among the ARTnews Top 200 collectors.

Venice Marco Polo is a major international airport on the Italian coast. The short flight may reflect a connection between the two regions, but no public events or appearances tied to Jon Shirley were found near either airport at this time.

San Sepolcro Airfield sits at an elevation of 1,050 feet. Venice Marco Polo Airport has a longest runway of 10,827 feet and an elevation of 7 feet. The distance from the aircraft's home base at Boeing Field to Venice is 4,734 nautical miles.

In the 30 days before this flight, N74JK made nine flights totaling 33.0 hours in the air. It visited six airports in two countries and flew about 13,644 nautical miles. The aircraft had been on the ground for about four days before departing from Rimini.

N74JK remains at Venice Marco Polo Airport as of the time of this report.