Coca-Cola's Gulfstream G600 N886RW flies from Richmond to Baltimore in 24 minutes

The Coca-Cola Company's Gulfstream G600, tail number N886RW, landed at Martin State Airport in Baltimore on Friday, November 6, 2026. The flight departed from Richmond International Airport at 21:37 UTC and touched down at 22:01 UTC, spending 24 minutes in the air.

The trip covered a great-circle distance of 120 nautical miles, or 138 miles. The aircraft flew at an average ground speed of 296 knots and reached a top speed of 398 knots. Its highest altitude was 11,075 feet. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 178 US gallons of fuel and released about 1,712 kg of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 4,237 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 flight used about 2 percent of the aircraft's range. Richmond's longest runway is 9,003 feet at an elevation of 167 feet. Baltimore's longest runway is 6,999 feet at 21 feet elevation. Before this flight, the aircraft had been on the ground at Richmond for about three hours.

This was the first landing at Baltimore by any of Coca-Cola's three tracked aircraft in the window from October 19 to November 6. The home base for Coca-Cola's fleet is Fulton County Airport Brown Field in Atlanta, 513 nautical miles from Baltimore. In the 30 days before this flight, the owner's aircraft flew 19 flights totaling 35.3 hours in the air, with about 149,343 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. Earlier on November 6, the same aircraft flew from Roanoke to Richmond, a 136-nautical-mile trip that took 27 minutes.

In the tracked window, the owner's most common destinations were Marietta with four landings and Richmond with three. On November 5, N886RW flew from Manassas to Roanoke in 32 minutes covering 156 nautical miles. The day before, it flew from Moore's Island to Manassas in 1 hour 36 minutes over 765 nautical miles.

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 Baltimore.

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.