Coca-Cola's Gulfstream G600 N966RW lands at Gavião Peixoto after 14-minute hop from Fazenda Renascença

The Coca-Cola Company's Gulfstream G600, tail number N966RW, landed at EMBRAER's Unidade Gavião Peixoto Airport in Brazil on Wednesday, November 11, 2026. The flight departed from Fazenda Renascença Airstrip at 21:37 UTC and touched down at 21:51 UTC, spending 14 minutes in the air. The trip covered a great-circle distance of 93 nautical miles, or 107 miles. The aircraft flew at an average ground speed of 396 knots and reached a top speed of 378 knots. Its highest altitude was 15,000 feet.

Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 103 US gallons of fuel and released about 991 kg of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 2,453 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 flight used about 1 percent of the aircraft's range. The aircraft is registered to Bank of Utah Trustee, the standard owner-shield, but spotter captions and the RW tail convention identify it as part of Coca-Cola's fleet.

This was the first landing at Gavião Peixoto by any of Coca-Cola's three tracked aircraft in the window from October 19 to November 11. The home base for Coca-Cola's fleet is Fulton County Airport Brown Field in Atlanta, about 3,923 nautical miles from Gavião Peixoto. In the 30 days before this flight, the owner's aircraft flew 31 flights totaling 70.5 hours in the air, with about 297,815 kg of CO2 emitted. The longest leg in that period was a 3,728 nm flight from Pinellas Park to São Paulo on November 10 by N966RW, another Gulfstream G600. No other tracked aircraft landed at Gavião Peixoto in the 24 hours before this landing.

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 are a company history lesson. Every aircraft ends in RW for Robert W. Woodruff, who ran Coca-Cola from 1923 to 1954. The digits carry dates: N886RW reads as 1886, the year the formula was mixed in an Atlanta pharmacy. EMBRAER's Gavião Peixoto Airport is the company's flight test and delivery center, but no specific reason tied to Coca-Cola was found in the news for this trip.

The Gulfstream G600 is a stretched version of the G500 and has four passenger zones. It can fly at Mach 0.925, or 515 knots. The aircraft's estimated fuel burn is 440 US gallons per hour.

Before this flight, N966RW had been on the ground for about 8 hours after its previous tracked landing at Campo Grande. The same day, another Coca-Cola aircraft, N886RW, flew from Roanoke to Richmond, a 34-minute trip of 127 nautical miles.

The departure field, Fazenda Renascença Airstrip, sits at an elevation of 1,558 feet. The arrival field, EMBRAER's Unidade Gavião Peixoto Airport, has its longest runway at 9,843 feet and an elevation of 1,998 feet.

The plane is now at EMBRAER's Unidade Gavião Peixoto Airport.