Coca-Cola's Gulfstream G600 N886RW flies from Manassas to Roanoke in 32 minutes

The Coca-Cola Company's Gulfstream G600, tail number N886RW, landed at Roanoke–Blacksburg Regional Airport in Virginia on Thursday, November 5, 2026. The flight departed from Washington Manassas Harry P. Davis Field at 19:54 UTC and touched down at 20:25 UTC, spending 32 minutes in the air.

The flight used only 2 percent of the aircraft's range. Roanoke–Blacksburg Regional Airport has a longest runway of 6,800 feet and sits at an elevation of 1,175 feet. Washington Manassas Harry P. Davis Field has a longest runway of 6,200 feet and an elevation of 192 feet.

The trip covered a great-circle distance of 156 nautical miles, or 179 miles. The aircraft flew at an average ground speed of 294 knots and reached a top speed of 373 knots. Its highest altitude was 16,050 feet. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 233 US gallons of fuel and released about 2,236 kg of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 5,533 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.

This was the first landing at Roanoke by any of Coca-Cola's three tracked aircraft in the window from October 19 to November 4. The home base for Coca-Cola's fleet is Fulton County Airport Brown Field in Atlanta, 308 nautical miles from Roanoke. In the 30 days before this flight, the owner's aircraft flew 17 flights totaling 34.4 hours in the air, with about 145,205 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 Roanoke about six hours before this flight.

Two days before this landing, on November 4, the same aircraft flew from Moore's Island to Manassas, a 765-nautical-mile trip that took 1 hour and 36 minutes. On November 2, it flew from Richmond to Columbia, covering 286 nautical miles in 46 minutes, and then from Columbia to Treasure Cay, a 462-nautical-mile leg that took 1 hour and 5 minutes.

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 Roanoke.

The Gulfstream G600 has a top speed of Mach 0.925, or 515 knots. It is a stretched version of the G500 with four passenger zones. The aircraft burns about 440 US gallons of fuel per hour, according to estimates.

Before this flight, the aircraft had been on the ground for about 22 hours. Its previous tracked landing was on November 4 at Manassas. 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.