Tim Draper's jet lands in Kona the week of the Bitcoin Conference

Tim Draper's Gulfstream G550, tail number N550DA, was tracked departing Ford Airport (KIMT) at 17:38 UTC on June 25, 2026, and arriving at Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport (PHKO) at 02:10 UTC on June 26, 2026, after an 8-hour, 31-minute flight covering 46975 feet at max altitude.

If aboard, Tim Draper would land in Kona the same week he was a featured speaker at the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas, where per Bitcoin Magazine on June 25, he told attendees, "You should be scared if you don't own bitcoin." The conference, covered by Coinstelegram and Cryptify Now, saw Draper argue that quantum computing will crack banks before Bitcoin, reinforcing his thesis that Bitcoin's decentralized network is more resilient than legacy financial infrastructure.

The flight from the Ironwood area of Michigan—a region with no obvious business ties—to Kona on a Friday evening suggests a personal or leisure move after a week of scheduled engagements, consistent with Draper's pattern of shuttling between West Coast home base at San Jose International and remote destinations, as seen in his prior Iceland-to-Edinburgh and Boston-to-San Jose legs earlier in June.