Mark Caputo's Gulfstream G650ER N650C flies from Hailey to Boise in 19 minutes

Mark Caputo's Gulfstream G650ER, tail number N650C, flew from Friedman Memorial Airport in Hailey, Idaho, to Boise Air Terminal on Tuesday, October 20, 2026. The aircraft departed at 15:11 UTC and landed at 15:30 UTC. The flight took 19 minutes.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 74 nautical miles, or 85 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 230 knots and reached a highest altitude of 15,900 feet. Based on celebplanes estimates, the flight burned about 152 gallons of fuel and produced roughly 1,456 kilograms of carbon dioxide, about the same as driving a car 3,604 miles. The Gulfstream G650ER is an ultra-long-range jet with a top speed of Mach 0.925, a ceiling of 51,000 feet, a range of 7,500 nautical miles, and seating for typically 12 passengers.

This is the third landing by one of Mark Caputo's aircraft at Boise in the tracked window. The previous landing was on October 2, 2026, also by N650C. The aircraft's home base is King County International Airport in Seattle. Usual destinations for Mark Caputo's aircraft include Dallas Love Field, Addison Airport, Palm Springs International, John Wayne Airport, Aspen-Pitkin County, and Eagle County Regional. In the 30 days before this flight, Mark Caputo's two aircraft made 19 flights, spending 30.9 hours in the air and producing an estimated 133,688 kilograms of CO2.

Before this flight, N650C had been on the ground in Hailey for about 16 hours. The previous tracked landing was on October 19, 2026, at Hailey, after a 4-hour 6-minute flight from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey covering 1,778 nautical miles. Hailey's longest runway is 7,550 feet at an elevation of 5,318 feet. Boise's longest runway is 10,000 feet at an elevation of 2,871 feet.

Mark Caputo founded Liberty Dialysis on Mercer Island in 2002 and grew it to about 260 clinics before selling to Fresenius Medical Care in 2012 for $1.7 billion. He later chaired Sound Physicians until 2018 and is now chairman and chief executive of U.S. Renal Care, based in Plano, Texas. He holds an MBA from Harvard. No news outlet has ever written about either of his aircraft, and no public event or meeting tied to Mark Caputo was found near Boise on this date.

N650C is registered to Mercer Air LLC, with the owner's name withheld under the FAA privacy program. The aircraft is a 2012 model with serial number 6021 and hex code A88CEC. Mark Caputo also operates a 1998 Gulfstream G-IV, tail number N80QJ.

In the 30 days before this flight, the most common destinations for Mark Caputo's aircraft were Teterboro with three landings, Dallas with two, and Austin with two. The longest leg in that period was Seattle to Teterboro on October 13, 2026, covering 2,081 nautical miles. The top ground speed seen on this flight was 380 knots.

This flight used about 1 percent of the aircraft's total range.