Lawrence Menard's Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet N1808C flies 21 nm from Reedsburg to Prairie Du Sac

Lawrence Menard's Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet G2+, tail number N1808C, flew from Reedsburg Municipal Airport to Sauk-Prairie Airport in Prairie Du Sac on Tuesday, October 27, 2026. The flight departed Reedsburg at 22:58 UTC and landed in Prairie Du Sac at 23:01 UTC. The trip took 4 minutes.

The departure airport, Reedsburg Municipal, has a longest runway of 4,840 feet at an elevation of 907 feet. The arrival airport, Sauk-Prairie, has a longest runway of 2,936 feet at an elevation of 832 feet. The distance from the aircraft's home base in Eau Claire to Sauk-Prairie is 120 nautical miles.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 21 nautical miles, or 24 miles. The aircraft averaged an unknown ground speed and reached a top speed of 232 knots. Its highest altitude during the flight was 6,100 feet. The Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet G2+ is a single-engine very light jet built for short regional trips. It has a range of 1,098 nautical miles, seats four passengers, and has a service ceiling of 31,000 feet. Based on the aircraft's fuel burn of 70 gallons per hour, the flight used about 4 gallons of jet fuel. That produced an estimated 40 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 99 miles.

Before this flight, N1808C had not landed at Prairie Du Sac in the tracked window from August 17 to October 27. The aircraft's home base is Chippewa Valley Regional Airport in Eau Claire. In the 30 days before this flight, the most common destinations were Eau Claire, Middleton, and Sheboygan. Recent flights include a run from Eau Claire to Tomah on October 27, Madison to Eau Claire on October 19, and Hamilton to Madison on October 18.

In the tracked window from August 17 to October 27, the aircraft made 40 flights. The most common destinations were Eau Claire with 15 landings, Middleton with 14 landings, and Sheboygan with 3 landings. Before this flight, the aircraft had about 0 hours on the ground, with its previous tracked landing at Tomah on October 27.

Lawrence Menard is a member of the Menard family behind Menards, the privately held Midwest home-improvement chain founded by John Menard Jr. and headquartered in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. N1808C is registered personally to Lawrence Menard in Eau Claire, the same field that hosts the Menard Inc. corporate fleet. The aircraft is a 2024 model, certified on March 14, 2024, and its registration is valid through March 31, 2031. A web search found no scheduled public appearances or events tied to Lawrence Menard or Menards near Prairie Du Sac on this date.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft used 6 airports in 1 country and flew about 1,931 nautical miles. The longest leg in that period was Middleton to Hamilton on October 17, covering 323 nautical miles. Recent flights include Eau Claire to Tomah on October 27, a 68-nautical-mile trip lasting 16 minutes.

This flight ended at an airport the aircraft had not visited before in the tracked window. The aircraft has flown 12 flights in the 30 days before this one, totaling 8.3 hours in the air and about 5,570 kilograms of CO2.