Coca-Cola's Gulfstream G600 N886RW flies from Bahamas to Manassas in 1h 36m

The Coca-Cola Company's Gulfstream G600, tail number N886RW, landed at Washington Manassas Harry P. Davis Field in Virginia on Wednesday, November 4, 2026. The flight departed from Moores Island Airport in Moore's Island, Bahamas, at 20:13 UTC and touched down at 21:48 UTC, spending 1 hour and 36 minutes in the air.

The trip covered a great-circle distance of 765 nautical miles, or 880 miles. The aircraft flew at an average ground speed of 479 knots and reached a top speed of 541 knots. Its highest altitude was 45,000 feet. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 703 US gallons of fuel and released about 6,751 kg of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 16,711 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 used 12 percent of its range on this trip. It burns an estimated 440 US gallons of fuel per hour. The departure airport, Moores Island Airport, sits at an elevation of 16 feet. The arrival airport, Manassas, has a longest runway of 6,200 feet and an elevation of 192 feet.

This was the first landing at Manassas by any of Coca-Cola's three tracked aircraft in the window from October 19 to November 2. The home base for Coca-Cola's fleet is Fulton County Airport Brown Field in Atlanta, 450 nautical miles from Manassas. In the 30 days before this flight, the owner's aircraft flew 16 flights totaling 32.8 hours in the air, with about 138,454 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. Glenn Youngkin's Beechcraft King Air 350 landed at Manassas under an hour before this flight.

Before this flight, the aircraft had been on the ground for about two days. Its previous tracked landing was on November 2 at Treasure Cay. In the 30-day window before this flight, the most common destinations for all of Coca-Cola's tracked aircraft were Marietta, with four landings, and Richmond, with two landings.

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. No specific reason tied to Coca-Cola was found in the news for this trip to Manassas.

N886RW is a 2019 airframe with serial 73023 and hex AC35AB. It is registered to Bank of Utah Trustee, a standard owner-shield.