Mark Caputo's Gulfstream IV N80QJ flies from Dallas to Austin in 40 minutes

Mark Caputo's Gulfstream IV, tail number N80QJ, flew from Addison Airport in Dallas to Austin Bergstrom International Airport on Wednesday, October 21, 2026. The aircraft departed at 15:21 UTC and landed at 16:02 UTC. The flight took 40 minutes.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 172 nautical miles, or 198 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 256 knots and reached a highest altitude of 20,000 feet. Based on celebplanes estimates, the flight burned about 255 gallons of fuel and produced roughly 2,451 kilograms of carbon dioxide, about the same as driving a car 6,066 miles. The Gulfstream IV is a large jet with a top speed of Mach 0.88, a ceiling of 45,000 feet, a range of 3,800 nautical miles, and seating for typically 12 passengers.

This is the third landing by one of Mark Caputo's aircraft at Austin in the tracked window. The previous landing was on September 30, 2026, also by N80QJ. 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 24 hours before this landing, three other tracked aircraft arrived at Austin: Elon Musk's Gulfstream G450 about 21 hours earlier, Travis Kalanick's Gulfstream G650ER about 20 hours earlier, and Max Verstappen's Dassault Falcon 8X about 16 hours earlier.

Mark Caputo founded Liberty Dialysis on Mercer Island in 2002 with Bob Santelli, backed by Bain Capital, KRG Capital and Seattle's Ignition Partners, and grew it to roughly 260 clinics before selling into Germany's Fresenius Medical Care in a deal reported at $1.7B and closed in 2012. He stayed at Fresenius as managing partner for joint ventures, chaired Sound Physicians until 2018, and is now chairman and chief executive of U.S. Renal Care, the dialysis operator 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 Austin on this date.

Before this flight, N80QJ had been on the ground in Dallas for about 21 days. The previous tracked landing was on September 30, 2026, at Addison Airport. In the 30 days before this flight, Mark Caputo's two aircraft made 21 flights, spending 32.6 hours in the air and producing an estimated 141,395 kilograms of CO2. The longest leg in that period was Seattle to Teterboro on October 13, 2026, covering 2,081 nautical miles.

The Gulfstream IV used about 5 percent of its range on the flight. Its top ground speed reached 455 knots. The departure airport in Dallas has a longest runway of 7,203 feet at an elevation of 644 feet. The arrival airport in Austin has a longest runway of 12,250 feet at an elevation of 542 feet. The distance from the aircraft's home base at King County International Airport in Seattle to Austin is 1,540 nautical miles.

In the 30 days before this flight, the owner's two aircraft made trips to Boise, Teterboro and Dallas. The most common destinations were Boise and Teterboro, each with three landings, and Dallas with two landings. The other aircraft, a Gulfstream G650ER, flew from Boise to Denver on October 20, 2026, covering 566 nautical miles in 1 hour and 23 minutes.