Lawrence Menard's Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet N1808C flies from Middleton to Eau Claire in 38 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 Sunday, November 8, 2026. The aircraft departed Middleton at 14:56 UTC and landed in Eau Claire at 15:33 UTC. The flight took 38 minutes.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 128 nautical miles, or 147 miles. The aircraft averaged 205 knots ground speed and reached a top speed of 229 knots. Its highest altitude during the flight was 16,475 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 44 gallons of jet fuel. That produced an estimated 420 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 1,041 miles.

Before this flight, N1808C had landed at Eau Claire 15 times in the tracked window from August 20 to November 6. The last landing at Eau Claire was on November 2, seven 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 Middleton with 15 landings, Eau Claire with 15 landings, and Chippewa Falls with 2 landings. The aircraft had been on the ground for about 41 hours before this trip, following a previous tracked landing at Middleton on November 6. Recent flights by the same owner include a 36-minute hop from Eau Claire to Middleton on November 6 covering 136 nautical miles, and a 32-minute flight from Middleton to Eau Claire on November 2 covering 136 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 12 flights totaling 7.6 hours in the air and about 5,081 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.