Mark Caputo's Gulfstream G650ER N650C flies from Hailey to Boise in 17 minutes

Mark Caputo's Gulfstream G650ER, tail number N650C, flew from Friedman Memorial Airport in Hailey, Idaho, to Boise Air Terminal on Monday, November 2, 2026. The aircraft departed at 19:28 UTC and landed at 19:46 UTC. The flight took 17 minutes.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 100 nautical miles, or 115 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 350 knots and reached a highest altitude of 15,675 feet. Based on celebplanes estimates, the flight burned about 135 gallons of fuel and produced roughly 1,294 kilograms of carbon dioxide, about the same as driving a car 3,204 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 used only 1 percent of its total range on this short hop. Its top ground speed reached 409 knots. Friedman Memorial Airport has a longest runway of 7,550 feet and sits at an elevation of 5,318 feet. Boise Air Terminal's longest runway is 10,000 feet, with an elevation of 2,871 feet. The distance from the aircraft's home base at King County International Airport in Seattle to Boise is 349 nautical miles.

This is the fifth landing by one of Mark Caputo's aircraft at Boise in the tracked window. The previous landing was on October 29, 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 29.9 hours in the air and producing an estimated 131,394 kilograms of CO2.

The most common destinations in that window were Boise, Hailey and Teterboro, each with four landings. The aircraft had been on the ground for about three days before this flight, after its previous tracked landing at Hailey on October 31. The longest leg in that period was a 2,081-nautical-mile flight from Seattle to Teterboro on October 13.

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.