Lawrence Menard's Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet N1808C flies from Eau Claire to Middleton in 36 minutes

Lawrence Menard's Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet G2+, tail number N1808C, flew from Chippewa Valley Regional Airport in Eau Claire to Middleton Municipal Morey Field on Saturday, October 31, 2026. The aircraft departed Eau Claire at 14:07 UTC and landed in Middleton at 14:43 UTC. The flight took 36 minutes.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 136 nautical miles, or 156 miles. The aircraft averaged 227 knots ground speed and reached a top speed of 270 knots. Its highest altitude during the flight was 8,650 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 42 gallons of jet fuel. That produced an estimated 403 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 997 miles.

Before this flight, N1808C had landed at Middleton 14 times in the tracked window from August 18 to October 28. The last landing at Middleton was on October 17, 14 days before this flight. The aircraft's home base is Chippewa Valley Regional Airport in Eau Claire. In the tracked window, the most common destinations were Eau Claire with 15 landings, Middleton with 14 landings, and Chippewa Falls with 2 landings. The aircraft had been on the ground for about 3 days before this trip, following a previous tracked landing at Eau Claire on October 28. Recent flights by the same owner include a 33-minute hop from Middleton to Eau Claire on October 28 covering 134 nautical miles, and a 4-minute flight from Reedsburg to Prairie Du Sac on October 27 covering 21 nautical miles.

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. Middleton is home to the company's regional distribution center and is near the state capital, where a proposed sales-tax exemption for building materials was pending in the legislature earlier this year, as reported by the Wisconsin State Journal on September 12. The aircraft's repeated visits to Middleton suggest ongoing business activity in the area.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft flew 11 flights totaling 7.1 hours in the air and about 4,771 kilograms of CO2. The longest leg in that period was from Middleton to Hamilton on October 17, covering 323 nautical miles. The aircraft used 7 airports in one country during that time.

This flight continues a pattern of regular shuttles between Eau Claire and Middleton, two key locations for the Menard family's business operations.