Rich Barton's Falcon 7X N993XZ lands at Van Nuys after a 45-minute hop from Las Vegas

Rich Barton's aircraft, a 2013 Dassault Falcon 7X registered N993XZ, was tracked flying from Harry Reid International Airport (KLAS) in Las Vegas to Van Nuys Airport (KVNY) on Tuesday, October 27, 2026. The flight departed at 21:42 UTC and landed at 22:27 UTC, spending 45 minutes in the air. The 195 nm trip covered 225 miles at an average ground speed of 259 kt, reaching a top speed of 403 kt and a highest altitude of 22,000 feet. The aircraft burned about 211 US gallons of fuel, producing an estimated 2,032 kg of CO2, roughly equal to driving a car 5,029 miles.

The Dassault Falcon 7X is an ultra long range trijet with a range of 5,950 nm and a top speed of Mach 0.90. It can seat up to 16 passengers and has a service ceiling of 51,000 feet. The flight used only 3 percent of the aircraft's range. Van Nuys Airport has a longest runway of 8,001 feet at an elevation of 802 feet.

The aircraft is a trijet with fly-by-wire controls, three living areas and an EASy cockpit. It burns about 280 US gallons of fuel per hour. Harry Reid International Airport, where the flight began, has a longest runway of 14,835 feet at an elevation of 2,181 feet. The distance from the aircraft's home base at King County International Airport-Boeing Field to Van Nuys Airport is 818 nautical miles.

This was the first tracked landing at Van Nuys for N993XZ in the 30 days before this flight. The aircraft's home base is King County International Airport-Boeing Field (KBFI) in Seattle, and its usual destinations include San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, Jackson Hole, Aspen, and Teterboro. In the 24 hours before this landing, a Netflix Gulfstream G600 also landed at Van Nuys, about three hours earlier. The aircraft had been on the ground at Las Vegas for about two hours before this flight, following a previous tracked landing there the same day.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft made 13 tracked flights totaling 27.1 hours in the air. Those flights produced an estimated 72,922 kg of CO2. The most common destinations in that window were Seattle with five landings, Las Vegas with four landings and San Jose with two landings. The longest leg in those 30 days was from Vilnius to Seattle on October 2, 2026, covering 4,458 nautical miles.

Rich Barton, born 1967, is the co-executive chairman of Zillow Group, which he co-founded in 2004. He built Expedia inside Microsoft, launched it in 1996, and led it through its 1999 IPO. He also founded Glassdoor and the travel app Trover. Barton has been a Netflix director since 2002 and sits on the Qurate Retail board. Forbes first called him a billionaire in February 2020, with current estimates ranging from about $1 billion to $2 billion. Van Nuys Airport is near Los Angeles, a city where Barton has no known home or regular business base listed in the briefing.

The aircraft is registered to TVPX Aircraft Solutions Inc Trustee, an owner trust that conceals the beneficial owner. The attribution to Barton is circumstantial, based on a hangar at Boeing Field that he reportedly bought in May 2025, where both N993XZ and Lloyd Frink's N626Z are kept. The flight is one of 14 tracked for N993XZ since September 26, 2026, covering about 10,695 nm across seven airports in three countries.