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

Mark Caputo's Gulfstream G650ER, tail number N650C, flew from Boise Air Terminal to Friedman Memorial Airport in Hailey, Idaho, on Thursday, October 29, 2026. The aircraft departed at 20:18 UTC and landed at 20:18 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.

The aircraft departed from Friedman Memorial Airport and landed at the same airport. The flight covered a great-circle distance of 11 nautical miles, or 13 miles. The plane reached a highest altitude of 7,300 feet and a top ground speed of 206 knots. Based on celebplanes estimates, the flight burned no fuel and produced about 28 kilograms of carbon dioxide, about the same as driving a car 68 miles.

This is the fourth landing by one of Mark Caputo's aircraft at Hailey in the tracked window. The previous landing was on October 26, 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 21 flights, spending 36.4 hours in the air and producing an estimated 158,352 kilograms of CO2.

Before this flight, the aircraft had flown from Seattle to Boise on the same day, a trip of 376 nautical miles that took 55 minutes. The previous tracked landing at Hailey was on October 26, 2026, when N650C arrived from Teterboro after a 3-hour 58-minute flight covering 1,778 nautical miles. In the tracked window, the owner's two aircraft made 28 flights. The most common destinations were Boise, Teterboro and Dallas.

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. No news outlet has ever written about either of his aircraft, and no public event or meeting tied to Mark Caputo was found near Hailey 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.