Mark Caputo's Gulfstream G650ER N650C flies from Pocatello to Hailey in 11 minutes

Mark Caputo's Gulfstream G650ER, tail number N650C, flew from Pocatello Regional Airport to Friedman Memorial Airport in Hailey, Idaho, on Saturday, October 31, 2026. The aircraft departed at 04:44 UTC and landed at 04:54 UTC. The flight took 11 minutes.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 50 nautical miles, or 58 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 283 knots and reached a highest altitude of 15,950 feet. Based on celebplanes estimates, the flight burned about 83 gallons of fuel and produced roughly 801 kilograms of carbon dioxide, about the same as driving a car 1,984 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 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 20 flights, spending 35.7 hours in the air and producing an estimated 157,802 kilograms of CO2.

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 $1.7 billion 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 reported a scheduled public appearance or event for Mark Caputo near Hailey on this date.

Before this flight, N650C had been on the ground in Pocatello for about 4 hours. The previous tracked landing was on October 31, 2026, at Pocatello, after a 1-hour 11-minute flight from Seattle covering 491 nautical miles. The longest leg in the 30-day window was Seattle to Teterboro on October 13, 2026, covering 2,081 nautical miles.

The flight from Pocatello to Hailey used only 1 percent of the Gulfstream G650ER's range. The aircraft reached a top ground speed of 405 knots. Pocatello's longest runway is 9,059 feet at an elevation of 4,452 feet. Hailey's longest runway is 7,550 feet at an elevation of 5,318 feet. The distance from the aircraft's home base at King County International Airport in Seattle to Hailey is 414 nautical miles.

The most common destinations were Boise with 4 landings, Teterboro with 4 landings, and Dallas with 3 landings. Two days before this flight, on October 29, 2026, N650C flew from Seattle to Boise in 55 minutes covering 376 nautical miles. On October 26, 2026, N650C flew from Teterboro to Hailey in 3 hours 58 minutes covering 1,778 nautical miles.