Melinda French Gates Private jet tracker

Melinda French Gates ran the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as co-chair until June 2024, when she resigned and took $12.5B out of the settlement to commit through her own vehicles. Pivotal Ventures, the Kirkland-based investment and incubation company she founded in 2015, is the main one; it backs women's economic mobility, caregiving infrastructure and political participation in the US. She has pledged $1B through 2026 to work on behalf of women and families.

N459BL is a 2018 Gulfstream G650ER, S/N 6321, hex A593AF — the airframe that flew as N194WM when it was listed under Bill Gates on this roster. The FAA MASTER row names TVPX Aircraft Solutions Inc as trustee, which is a registration structure rather than an operator: it keeps the beneficial owner off the public registry. The tie to Pivotal Ventures comes from the hangar and from who flies it, not from anything the registry states, and that is the standard this attribution rests on.

Base is Boeing Field, in the Gates family hangar complex on the east side. Because the airframe and the crew are shared history with the other G650ER, expect the two to appear at the same fields — a legacy of one household fleet split in two, not evidence that the aircraft fly together.