Lawrence Menard's Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet N1808C flies from Madison to Eau Claire in 37 minutes

Lawrence Menard's Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet G2+, tail number N1808C, flew from Dane County Regional Truax Field in Madison to Chippewa Valley Regional Airport in Eau Claire on Wednesday, November 11, 2026. The aircraft departed Madison at 13:42 UTC and landed in Eau Claire at 14:19 UTC. The flight took 37 minutes.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 139 nautical miles, or 160 miles. The aircraft averaged 224 knots ground speed and reached a top speed of 282 knots. Its highest altitude during the flight was 14,050 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 418 kilograms of CO2, about the same as driving a car 1,035 miles.

Madison's Dane County Regional Airport has a longest runway of 9,006 feet and sits at an elevation of 887 feet. Chippewa Valley Regional Airport's longest runway is 8,101 feet, with an elevation of 913 feet. In the tracked window from August 26 to November 10, the aircraft made 40 flights.

Before this flight, N1808C had landed at Eau Claire 15 times in the tracked window from August 26 to November 10. The last landing at Eau Claire was on November 8, three 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 Madison with 3 landings. The aircraft had been on the ground for about 14 hours before this trip, following a previous tracked landing at Madison on November 10. Recent flights by the same owner include a 33-minute hop from Eau Claire to Madison on November 10 covering 142 nautical miles, and a 38-minute flight from Middleton to Eau Claire on November 8 covering 128 nautical miles.

Recent flights by the same owner include a 36-minute trip 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. On October 27, a 4-minute flight from Reedsburg to Prairie Du Sac covered 21 nautical miles, and a 16-minute flight from Eau Claire to Tomah covered 68 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. Madison is 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 Madison 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 5,110 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 Madison and Eau Claire, two key locations for the Menard family's business operations.