Coca-Cola's Gulfstream G600 N890RW lands in Marietta after 33-minute hop from Augusta

The Coca-Cola Company's Gulfstream G600, tail number N890RW, landed at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia, on Tuesday, October 20, 2026. The flight departed from Augusta Regional At Bush Field at 15:39 UTC and touched down at 16:12 UTC, spending 33 minutes in the air. The trip covered a great-circle distance of 131 nautical miles, or 151 miles.

Augusta Regional At Bush Field has a longest runway of 8,001 feet and an elevation of 144 feet. The aircraft had been on the ground there for about one hour before this departure, based on its previous tracked landing earlier on October 20.

The aircraft flew at an average ground speed of 239 knots and reached a top speed of 392 knots. Its highest altitude was 18,000 feet. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 242 US gallons of fuel and released about 2,322 kg of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 5,749 miles. The Gulfstream G600 is an ultra long range jet with a range of 6,600 nm, a ceiling of 51,000 feet, and seating for up to 19 passengers.

The Gulfstream G600 is a stretched version of the G500 and has four passenger zones. Its top speed is Mach 0.925, or 515 knots. The estimated fuel burn for this aircraft is 440 US gallons per hour.

There were no earlier landings at Marietta by any of Coca-Cola's three tracked aircraft in the window from October 19 to October 20. The home base for Coca-Cola's fleet is Fulton County Airport Brown Field in Atlanta, just 8 nautical miles from Dobbins. In the 30 days before this flight, the owner's aircraft flew three flights totaling 8.6 hours in the air, with about 36,342 kg of CO2 emitted. The longest leg in that period was a 2,116 nm flight from Richmond to Monterey on October 19 by N886RW, another Gulfstream G600. Two other tracked aircraft landed at Marietta in the 24 hours before this landing: a Bombardier Global Express XRS belonging to GLOCK about 24 hours earlier, and a Norfolk Southern Embraer Praetor 500 about 13 hours earlier.

The Coca-Cola Company has been buying Gulfstreams since the 1960s, and its flight department operates from Fulton County Airport Brown Field on Atlanta's west side. The tail numbers on its aircraft carry company history: N890RW ends in RW for Robert W. Woodruff, who ran Coca-Cola from 1923 to 1954. The digits 890 do not match a date, but other aircraft in the fleet use numbers like 886 for 1886, the year the formula was created. Dobbins Air Reserve Base is near Coca-Cola's home base and is a common stop for corporate flights, but no specific reason tied to Coca-Cola was found in the news for this trip.

The Coca-Cola Company is a global beverage maker with customers in more than 200 countries. Its flight department operates three Gulfstream G600s, including N890RW, which is a 2025 airframe. The aircraft is registered to Bank of Utah Trustee, a standard arrangement that shields the owner's name from the public registry.

On October 19, another Coca-Cola Gulfstream G600, tail number N966RW, flew from Marietta to Salt Lake City. That trip covered 1,370 nautical miles in 3 hours and 15 minutes.

This flight from Augusta to Marietta used about 2 percent of the aircraft's range. The plane is now at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, which has a longest runway of 10,002 feet and an elevation of 1,068 feet.