Lawrence Menard's Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet N1808C flies from Middleton to Eau Claire in 32 minutes

Lawrence Menard's Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet G2+, tail number N1808C, flew from Middleton Municipal Morey Field in Middleton to Chippewa Valley Regional Airport in Eau Claire on Monday, November 2, 2026. The aircraft departed Middleton at 01:18 UTC and landed in Eau Claire at 01:50 UTC. The flight took 32 minutes.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 136 nautical miles, or 156 miles. The aircraft averaged 253 knots ground speed and reached a top speed of 287 knots. Its highest altitude during the flight was 15,775 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 38 gallons of jet fuel. That produced an estimated 361 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 895 miles.

Before this flight, N1808C had landed at Eau Claire 15 times in the tracked window from August 18 to October 31. The last landing at Eau Claire was on October 28, five 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 15 landings, and Chippewa Falls with 2 landings. The aircraft had been on the ground for about 35 hours before this trip, following a previous tracked landing at Middleton on October 31. Recent flights by the same owner include a 36-minute hop from Eau Claire to Middleton on October 31 covering 136 nautical miles, and a 33-minute flight from Middleton to Eau Claire on October 28 covering 134 nautical miles. A Menard Inc. Cessna Citation X+ landed at Eau Claire under an hour before this flight.

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 12 flights totaling 7.7 hours in the air and about 5,174 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 Middleton and Eau Claire, two key locations for the Menard family's business operations.