Gulfstream IV
N80QJ · ICAO: AAE0EB · Heavy jet

Mark Caputo founded Liberty Dialysis on Mercer Island in 2002 with Bob Santelli, backed by Bain Capital, KRG Capital and Seattle's Ignition Partners, and grew it to roughly 260 clinics before selling into Germany's Fresenius Medical Care in a deal reported at $1.7B and closed in 2012. He stayed at Fresenius as managing partner for joint ventures, chaired Sound Physicians until 2018, and is now chairman and chief executive of U.S. Renal Care, the dialysis operator based in Plano, Texas. Harvard MBA.
He is not the political journalist Marc Caputo, who is a different person with a different spelling and no aircraft.
Two airframes, both status valid, both with the registered owner NAME withheld under the FAA's privacy program — the Mode S hex is still published for each, so both track normally. N80QJ is a 1998 Gulfstream G-IV, serial 1333, hex AAE0EB. N650C is a 2012 Gulfstream G650ER, serial 6021, hex A88CEC. Both records were last touched on the same day, 24 August 2025, which is the sort of thing that happens when one owner files for both at once.
The holding entity is reported as Mercer Air LLC, a Washington company incorporated in October 2010 whose officer list includes a Mark Caputo; there is also a Mercer Air II LLC at a Mercer Island address. That comes from third-party mirrors of the Washington Secretary of State rather than from the state's own system, and because the FAA name is withheld there is no federal record joining the aircraft to the LLC at all. So: the airframes are confirmed, the owner is inferred, and no news outlet has ever written about either jet.
Note · Celebplanes tracks Mark Caputo's registered aircraft — not Mark Caputo personally. ADS-B data shows when and where the plane moved; who was aboard any given flight is unknown.
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Yes. Celebplanes tracks 2 aircraft associated with Mark Caputo: a Gulfstream IV (N80QJ) and a Gulfstream G650ER (N650C). The aircraft are registered to Mercer Air LLC — owner name withheld on the FAA registry under the privacy program, not to Mark Caputo personally. Every movement is logged from the public ADS-B broadcast, so the flight history on this page is a record of the aircraft, not of who was aboard.
Mark Caputo flies 2 aircraft: Gulfstream IV, Gulfstream G650ER (N80QJ, N650C). Live tracking, full flight history, and CO₂ emissions for each aircraft are available on this page.
Mark Caputo flies 2 tracked aircraft across 2 types: N80QJ (Gulfstream IV) and N650C (Gulfstream G650ER). The aircraft are registered to Mercer Air LLC — owner name withheld on the FAA registry under the privacy program, not to Mark Caputo personally. This is the count Celebplanes can evidence from public registration and ADS-B records; aircraft held through undisclosed entities or chartered rather than owned would not appear here.
Mark Caputo flies a Gulfstream IV — Large class, 3,800 nm range, seating up to 16 (registration N80QJ). 1 further aircraft is tracked on this page: Gulfstream G650ER (N650C). The aircraft are registered to Mercer Air LLC — owner name withheld on the FAA registry under the privacy program, not to Mark Caputo personally.
Mark Caputo's private jet tail numbers are N80QJ (Gulfstream IV), N650C (Gulfstream G650ER). Each registration links to the live tracking page with full flight history, fuel burn and CO₂ emissions on Celebplanes.
Attributions derived from FAA registry + ADSB Exchange + SEC filings; may be incomplete or outdated. Methodology · Report an error. Observational use only.
Mark Caputo's Gulfstream IV (N80QJ) burns roughly 380 gallons of Jet-A per hour, which converts to about 3,650 kg of CO₂ per flight hour — equivalent to roughly 9,036 miles of average passenger-car driving.
Mark Caputo's home base is King County Intl / Boeing Field (KBFI / BFI), with frequent destinations including KDAL, KADS, KPSP, KSNA.
Yes. Every transponder-equipped aircraft broadcasts unencrypted ADS-B position data continuously, by FAA mandate. Celebplanes aggregates this public broadcast from ADSB Exchange, ADSB.fi, FlightRadar24 and airplanes.live — the same sources used by news outlets and academic researchers. See celebplanes.com/methodology for details.