Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet N1808C Flies 21-Nautical-Mile Hop From Reedsburg to Prairie Du Sac

A Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet G2+ registered N1808C flew from Reedsburg Municipal Airport to Sauk-Prairie Airport in Prairie Du Sac, Wisconsin, on October 27, 2026. It departed Reedsburg at 22:58 UTC and landed at 23:01 UTC, a flight of about four minutes. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 21 nautical miles (24 miles), and the aircraft reached a top speed of 232 knots and a maximum altitude of 6,100 feet.

Reedsburg Municipal has a longest runway of 4,840 feet at an elevation of 907 feet. Sauk-Prairie has a longest runway of 2,936 feet at an elevation of 832 feet. The aircraft's home base is Chippewa Valley Regional Airport in Eau Claire, 120 nautical miles from Sauk-Prairie. Based on a fuel burn of 70 gallons per hour, the hop used about 4 gallons of jet fuel and produced an estimated 40 kg of CO2, comparable to driving a car 99 miles.

N1808C is a 2024 model, certified on March 14, 2024, with registration valid through March 31, 2031. It is registered personally to Lawrence Menard in Eau Claire. Menard is a member of the family behind Menards, the privately held Midwest home-improvement chain founded by John Menard Jr. and headquartered in Eau Claire. A web search found no scheduled public appearances or events tied to Lawrence Menard or Menards near Prairie Du Sac on this date.

The Vision Jet G2+ is a single-engine very light jet with a range of 1,098 nautical miles, seating for four passengers and a service ceiling of 31,000 feet.

In the tracked window from August 17 to October 27, the aircraft made 40 flights, and it had not previously landed at Prairie Du Sac in that period. The most common destinations were Eau Claire with 15 landings, Middleton with 14 and Sheboygan with 3. Its previous tracked landing before this flight was at Tomah on October 27, a 68-nautical-mile, 16-minute leg from Eau Claire.

In the 30 days before this flight, the aircraft flew 12 flights totaling 8.3 hours in the air and about 1,931 nautical miles across 6 airports in one country, producing about 5,570 kg of CO2. The longest leg in that period was Middleton to Hamilton on October 17, covering 323 nautical miles. Other recent flights include Madison to Eau Claire on October 19 and Hamilton to Madison on October 18.

A four-minute, 21-nautical-mile jet flight illustrates how an owner-flown very light jet is used in practice: as a point-to-point personal aircraft whose value comes from access to small airports rather than from range. Both fields here have runways under 5,000 feet, and the aircraft's 1,098-nautical-mile range goes almost entirely unused on a leg like this. For this class of aircraft, utility is measured in convenience and schedule control more than in distance flown.

The same flight also shows the fuel and emissions footprint of very short sectors. A takeoff-and-climb-dominated leg burned about 4 gallons and an estimated 40 kg of CO2, a figure that sits within an aircraft that logged roughly 5,570 kg of CO2 over 12 flights in the prior 30 days. Short repositioning hops contribute little to total hours but are a visible target in public discussion of private-jet use, particularly when tracking sites publish per-flight comparisons to car travel.

Nothing in the record ties this hop to a business purpose, event or passenger, and a search found no related public appearances near Prairie Du Sac. The next landing of N1808C in the tracking data would show whether Sauk-Prairie becomes a repeat destination or stays a one-off stop.