Coca-Cola's Gulfstream G600 N886RW flies from Idaho Falls to Denver in 59 minutes

The Coca-Cola Company's Gulfstream G600, tail number N886RW, landed at Centennial Airport in Denver, Colorado, on Wednesday, October 28, 2026. The flight departed from Idaho Falls Regional Airport at 22:24 UTC and touched down at 23:23 UTC, spending 59 minutes in the air. The trip covered a great-circle distance of 397 nm, or 456 miles.

The aircraft flew at an average ground speed of 401 knots and reached a top speed of 549 knots. Its highest altitude was 37,000 feet. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 435 US gallons of fuel and released about 4,178 kg of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 10,340 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.

There were no earlier landings at Denver by any of Coca-Cola's three tracked aircraft in the window from October 19 to October 28. The home base for Coca-Cola's fleet is Fulton County Airport Brown Field in Atlanta, 1,036 nm from Centennial. In the 30 days before this flight, the owner's aircraft flew 10 flights totaling 23.8 hours in the air, with about 100,529 kg of CO2 emitted. The longest leg in that period was a 2,117 nm flight from Monterey to Richmond on October 22 by N886RW. Another Coca-Cola Gulfstream G600, tail number N890RW, flew from Indiantown to Marietta earlier on October 28.

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 mixed in an Atlanta pharmacy. Centennial Airport is a common stop for corporate flights near Denver, but no specific reason tied to Coca-Cola was found in the news for this trip.

This flight from Idaho Falls to Denver used about 6 percent of the aircraft's range. The plane is now at Centennial Airport, which has a longest runway of 10,001 feet and an elevation of 5,885 feet.

Before this flight, N886RW had been on the ground for about 3 hours after a previous tracked landing at Dubois on October 28. That same day, another Coca-Cola Gulfstream G600, tail number N890RW, flew from Indiantown to Marietta in 1 hour 23 minutes covering 455 nm.

In the 30-day window before this flight, the most common destination for all three of Coca-Cola's tracked aircraft was Marietta, with 3 landings. N886RW is a 2019 airframe with serial 73023 and hex AC35AB. All three tracked G600s are registered to Bank of Utah Trustee.