Coca-Cola's Gulfstream G600 N966RW lands in Marietta after flight from Salt Lake City

The Coca-Cola Company's Gulfstream G600, tail number N966RW, landed at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia, on Thursday, October 22, 2026. The flight departed from Salt Lake City International Airport at 17:45 UTC and touched down at 20:55 UTC, spending 3 hours and 11 minutes in the air.

The flight used 21 percent of the aircraft's range. The Gulfstream G600 is a stretched G500 with four passenger zones. Its top speed is Mach 0.925, or 515 knots. The aircraft burns an estimated 440 US gallons of fuel per hour.

The trip covered a great-circle distance of 1,370 nautical miles, or 1,577 miles. The aircraft flew at an average ground speed of 431 knots and reached a top speed of 546 knots. Its highest altitude was 41,025 feet. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 1,399 US gallons of fuel and released about 13,437 kg of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 33,259 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.

Salt Lake City International Airport has a longest runway of 12,002 feet at an elevation of 4,227 feet. Dobbins Air Reserve Base has a longest runway of 10,002 feet at an elevation of 1,068 feet.

This was the second landing at Marietta by one of Coca-Cola's three tracked aircraft in the window from October 19 to October 22. The previous one was on October 20 by N890RW, another Gulfstream G600. 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 four flights totaling 9.1 hours in the air, with about 38,664 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, a Gulfstream G600. Two other tracked aircraft landed at Marietta in the 24 hours before this landing: a Norfolk Southern Embraer Praetor 500 about 3 hours earlier, and an Arthur Blank Bombardier Global 6000 about 3 hours earlier.

Before this flight, the aircraft had been on the ground for about three days. Its previous tracked landing was on October 19 at Salt Lake City. On October 20, N890RW flew from Marietta to Augusta and back, covering 130 nautical miles each way.

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: N966RW ends in RW for Robert W. Woodruff, who ran Coca-Cola from 1923 to 1954. The digits 966 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 N966RW, which is a 2024 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 N890RW, flew from Marietta to Augusta and back. That same day, N886RW flew from Richmond to Monterey.