Coca-Cola's Gulfstream G600 N886RW lands in Richmond after 4-hour flight from Monterey

The Coca-Cola Company's Gulfstream G600, tail number N886RW, landed at Richmond International Airport on Thursday, October 22, 2026. The flight departed from Monterey Regional Airport at 19:40 UTC and touched down at 00:10 UTC, spending 4 hours and 30 minutes in the air. The trip covered a great-circle distance of 2,117 nautical miles, or 2,436 miles.

The aircraft flew at an average ground speed of 471 knots and reached a top speed of 564 knots. Its highest altitude was 47,100 feet. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 1,978 US gallons of fuel and released about 19,005 kg of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 47,043 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 aircraft is a 2019 airframe with serial number 73023. It is registered to Bank of Utah Trustee, a standard owner-shield. The attribution to Coca-Cola comes from spotter captions, the RW tail-number convention, and the shared base at Fulton County Airport Brown Field.

There were no earlier landings at Richmond by any of Coca-Cola's three tracked aircraft in the window from October 19 to October 22. The home base for Coca-Cola's fleet is Fulton County Airport Brown Field in Atlanta, just 416 nautical miles from Richmond. In the 30 days before this flight, the owner's aircraft flew five flights totaling 12.3 hours in the air, with about 52,101 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. Three other tracked aircraft landed at Richmond in the 24 hours before this landing: an Altria Gulfstream G600 about 22 hours earlier, a Dominion Energy Gulfstream G450 about 12 hours earlier, and a Glenn Youngkin Beechcraft King Air 350 about 3 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: N886RW ends in RW for Robert W. Woodruff, who ran Coca-Cola from 1923 to 1954. The digits 886 stand for 1886, the year the formula was created in an Atlanta pharmacy. Richmond is a major city in Virginia, 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.

Before this flight, the aircraft had been on the ground for about three days since its previous tracked landing at Monterey on October 19. In the same tracking window, the owner's other aircraft flew two short legs: a 33-minute flight from Augusta to Marietta and a 39-minute flight from Marietta to Augusta, both on October 20.

This flight from Monterey to Richmond used about 32 percent of the aircraft's range. The plane is now at Richmond International Airport, which has a longest runway of 9,003 feet and an elevation of 167 feet.