Rich Barton's Falcon 7X N993XZ flies a 4-minute hop at Palm Springs

Rich Barton's aircraft, a 2013 Dassault Falcon 7X registered N993XZ, was tracked flying a brief circuit from Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport (KTRM) in Palm Springs on Wednesday, November 11, 2026. The flight departed at 15:57 UTC and landed at 16:01 UTC, spending just 4 minutes in the air. The 4 nm trip covered 5 miles at an average ground speed of 197 kt, reaching a highest altitude of 1,400 feet. The aircraft burned about 18 US gallons of fuel, producing an estimated 173 kg of CO2, roughly equal to driving a car 427 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 less than 1 percent of the aircraft's range. Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport has a longest runway of 8,500 feet at an elevation of minus 115 feet.

This was the first tracked landing at Palm Springs 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, the aircraft had flown from Seattle to Palm Springs, a 3-minute hop covering 24 nm. The aircraft had been on the ground at Palm Springs for about 0 hours before this flight, following a previous tracked landing there the same day.

Rich Barton, born 1967, is the co-executive chairman of Zillow Group, which he co-founded in 2004. He also founded Glassdoor and the travel app Trover, which Expedia bought back in 2016. He has been a Netflix director since 2002. 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.

This flight is one of 24 tracked for N993XZ since September 26, 2026, covering about 7,101 nm across 10 airports in one country. The most common destinations in that window were Las Vegas with 8 landings, Seattle with 7 landings and San Jose with 2 landings. The longest leg in those 30 days was from Kenmore to Las Vegas on October 27, 2026, covering 771 nautical miles.

The aircraft's 24 tracked flights since September 26, 2026, totaled 19.7 hours in the air. Those flights produced an estimated 52,925 kg of CO2. The distance from the home base at King County International Airport-Boeing Field in Seattle to Palm Springs is 880 nm.

In the days before this circuit, the aircraft flew from Las Vegas to Seattle on November 4, then Seattle to Las Vegas the same day. On November 9 it flew from Seattle to Las Vegas, then Bullhead City to Salinas. On November 11 it flew from Monterey to Salinas and Salinas to Las Vegas.