Jon Shirley's Falcon 7X makes a 24-minute hop from Boeing Field to Everett

Jon Shirley's Dassault Falcon 7X, tail number N74JK, flew from King County International Airport - Boeing Field (KBFI) in Seattle to Seattle Paine Field International Airport (KPAE) in Everett on Saturday, October 31, 2026. The aircraft departed at 16:46 UTC and landed at 17:10 UTC. The flight took 24 minutes to complete.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 24 nautical miles, or 27 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 61 knots and reached a top speed of 265 knots. It climbed to a highest altitude of 3,925 feet. Based on our estimate, the flight burned about 98 US gallons of fuel, producing about 945 kilograms of CO2. The Falcon 7X is an ultra-long-range trijet with a range of 5,950 nautical miles and a ceiling of 51,000 feet. It typically seats 12 to 16 passengers.

This was the fifth landing at Everett in the tracked window of 15 flights since September 25, 2026. The previous landing at Everett was on October 24, 2026, seven days before this flight. The aircraft's home base is King County International Airport, Boeing Field (KBFI), about 23 nautical miles south of Everett. In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft visited 12 airports in three countries and flew about 16,127 nautical miles. The longest leg in that period was from Everett to Venice on October 16, 2026, covering 4,714 nautical miles.

The aircraft's longest runway at Boeing Field is 10,007 feet, with an elevation of 21 feet. At Paine Field, the longest runway is 9,010 feet, elevation 606 feet. In the 30 days before this flight, the jet logged 12 flights, 38.5 hours in the air, and an estimated 92,392 kilograms of CO2.

Jon Shirley is the former president, chief operating officer, and director of Microsoft. He joined the company in 1983, oversaw its 1986 initial public offering and the construction of the Redmond campus, and remained on the board until 2008. He lives in Medina, Washington, across Lake Washington from Microsoft's headquarters. Shirley and his late wife Mary built a significant collection of modern art, including more than 40 works by Alexander Calder, which they donated to the Seattle Art Museum. He remarried in 2016 to Kim Richter Shirley, and the couple appears on the ARTnews Top 200 collectors list.

The aircraft is registered to Executive Jet Management, NetJets' managed-aircraft arm. The tail number N74JK appears to be a set of initials. The aircraft returned to the Seattle area after a 38-hour layover at Boeing Field. Its previous tracked landing was on October 30, 2026, at Boeing Field from Palm Springs. In the tracked window, the most common destinations were Everett with five landings, Teterboro with two landings and Venice with two landings.

The Falcon 7X has a top speed of Mach 0.90, or 497 knots. It is a trijet with fly-by-wire controls, three living areas, and an EASy cockpit. The estimated fuel burn is 250 US gallons per hour.