Mark Caputo's Gulfstream G650ER N650C flies from Boise to Hailey in 23 minutes

Mark Caputo's Gulfstream G650ER, tail number N650C, flew from Boise Air Terminal in Idaho to Friedman Memorial Airport in Hailey, Idaho, on Thursday, November 5, 2026. The aircraft departed at 20:06 UTC and landed at 20:30 UTC. The flight took 23 minutes.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 85 nautical miles, or 98 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 221 knots and reached a highest altitude of 16,750 feet. Based on celebplanes estimates, the flight burned about 181 gallons of fuel and produced roughly 1,742 kilograms of carbon dioxide, about the same as driving a car 4,312 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 fifth landing by one of Mark Caputo's aircraft at Hailey in the tracked window. The previous landing was on October 31, 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, the owner's two aircraft made 21 flights, spending 33.9 hours in the air and producing an estimated 149,404 kilograms of CO2.

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, as reported by (seattletimes.com). 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 Hailey on this date.

The aircraft had been on the ground for about zero hours before this flight, after its previous tracked landing at Boise on the same day. N650C is registered to Mercer Air LLC, with the owner's name withheld under the FAA privacy program.

The aircraft used only 1 percent of its range on the short hop. Its top ground speed reached 406 knots. Boise's longest runway is 10,000 feet at an elevation of 2,871 feet. Hailey's longest runway is 7,550 feet at 5,318 feet. The distance from the aircraft's home base at King County International Airport to Hailey is 414 nautical miles.

In the tracked window from September 27 to November 5, 2026, the owner's two aircraft made 34 flights. The most common destinations were Boise with six landings, Dallas with four, and Hailey with four. The longest leg in that period was Seattle to Teterboro on October 13, covering 2,081 nautical miles. The aircraft's estimated fuel burn is 470 US gallons per hour.