Coca-Cola's Gulfstream G600 N886RW lands at Richmond after 34-minute hop from Roanoke

The Coca-Cola Company's Gulfstream G600, tail number N886RW, landed at Richmond International Airport on Wednesday, November 11, 2026. The flight departed from Roanoke–Blacksburg Regional Airport at 18:53 UTC and touched down at 19:26 UTC, spending 34 minutes in the air.

The trip covered a great-circle distance of 127 nautical miles, or 146 miles. The aircraft flew at an average ground speed of 227 knots and reached a top speed of 416 knots. Its highest altitude was 13,050 feet. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 246 US gallons of fuel and released about 2,365 kg of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 5,853 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 fifth landing at Richmond by any of Coca-Cola's three tracked aircraft in the window from October 19 to November 11. The last one was on November 6, when N886RW landed there after a flight from Roanoke. The home base for Coca-Cola's fleet is Fulton County Airport Brown Field in Atlanta, 416 nautical miles from Richmond. In the 30 days before this flight, the owner's aircraft flew 30 flights totaling 69.9 hours in the air, with about 295,450 kg of CO2 emitted. The most common destinations in that period were Marietta with four landings and Richmond with four. Earlier on November 11, the same aircraft flew from Phoenix to Roanoke, a 1,578-nautical-mile trip that took 3 hours and 13 minutes. Two other tracked aircraft landed at Richmond in the 24 hours before this flight: a Gulfstream G450 operated by Dominion Energy, which landed about 24 hours earlier, and an Embraer Praetor 600 operated by NextEra Energy, which landed about 16 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. Richmond is the capital of Virginia and a hub for state government and business, but no specific reason tied to Coca-Cola was found in the news for this trip. 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.

The flight used about 2 percent of the aircraft's total range. Richmond's longest runway is 9,003 feet, at an elevation of 167 feet. Roanoke's longest runway is 6,800 feet, at an elevation of 1,175 feet. The aircraft is a 2019 airframe, serial number 73023. It is one of three Gulfstream G600s tracked to Coca-Cola. All three are registered to Bank of Utah Trustee.

On November 9, N886RW flew from Richmond to Roanoke, a 29-minute trip covering 128 nautical miles. On November 10, another Coca-Cola G600, N966RW, flew from Pinellas Park to São Paulo, a 3,728-nautical-mile leg that took 8 hours and 16 minutes. On November 11, N966RW flew from São Paulo to Campo Grande, and N890RW flew from Tokyo to Weihai.