Falcon 7X N993XZ, linked to Rich Barton, flies 4-minute, 4 nm hop at Palm Springs
Why It MattersTracking of owner-trust registered business jets lets public flight data tie individual aircraft to likely owners, even when the registration deliberately conceals the beneficial owner.
A 2013 Dassault Falcon 7X registered N993XZ, attributed to Rich Barton, flew a brief circuit from Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport (KTRM) in Palm Springs on Wednesday, November 11, 2026. It departed at 15:57 UTC and landed at 16:01 UTC, spending 4 minutes in the air. The 4 nm trip covered 5 miles at an average ground speed of 197 kt and reached 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 Falcon 7X is an ultra long range trijet with a range of 5,950 nm, a top speed of Mach 0.90, a service ceiling of 51,000 feet and seating for up to 16 passengers. The flight used less than 1 percent of that range. Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport has a longest runway of 8,500 feet at an elevation of minus 115 feet. It was the first tracked landing at Palm Springs for N993XZ in the 30 days before the flight. In the 24 hours before the landing, the aircraft had flown from Seattle to Palm Springs, a 3-minute hop covering 24 nm, and it had been on the ground at Palm Springs for about 0 hours before this flight, following a previous tracked landing there the same day.
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 bought in May 2025, where both N993XZ and Lloyd Frink's N626Z are kept. Barton, born 1967, is 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, and has been a Netflix director since 2002.
This flight is one of 24 tracked flights for N993XZ since September 26, 2026, covering about 7,101 nm across 10 airports in one country and totaling 19.7 hours in the air, with an estimated 52,925 kg of CO2. 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 was from Kenmore to Las Vegas on October 27, 2026, covering 771 nautical miles. 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 the 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.
