Coca-Cola's Gulfstream G600 N966RW lands in São Paulo after 33-minute hop from Guatapará

The Coca-Cola Company's Gulfstream G600, tail number N966RW, landed at São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport on Friday, November 13, 2026. The flight departed from Represa Fazenda Capão da Cruz Airport in Guatapará, Brazil, at 00:17 UTC and touched down at 00:50 UTC, spending 33 minutes in the air.

The departure airport, Represa Fazenda Capão da Cruz Airport, sits at an elevation of 1,886 feet. The arrival airport, São Paulo/Guarulhos, has a longest runway of 12,139 feet and an elevation of 2,461 feet. This flight used about 2 percent of the aircraft's range.

The trip covered a great-circle distance of 143 nautical miles, or 165 miles. The aircraft flew at an average ground speed of 262 knots and reached a top speed of 431 knots. Its highest altitude was 21,000 feet. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 241 US gallons of fuel and released about 2,313 kg of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 5,725 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 second landing at São Paulo by any of Coca-Cola's three tracked aircraft in the window from October 19 to November 11. The last one was on November 10, when N966RW landed there after an 8-hour 16-minute flight from Pinellas Park, Florida. The home base for Coca-Cola's fleet is Fulton County Airport Brown Field in Atlanta, 4,065 nautical miles from São Paulo. In the 30 days before this flight, the owner's aircraft flew 32 flights totaling 70.7 hours in the air, with about 298,806 kg of CO2 emitted. The longest leg in that period was the 3,728 nm flight from Pinellas Park to São Paulo on November 10 by N966RW.

Before this flight, N966RW had been on the ground for about 26 hours. Its previous tracked landing was on November 11 at Gavião Peixoto. On November 11, the same aircraft flew from Frutal to Gavião Peixoto, a 14-minute trip covering 93 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: N966RW ends in RW for Robert W. Woodruff, who ran Coca-Cola from 1923 to 1954. The digits 966 stand for 1896, the year the company began bottling operations. No specific reason tied to Coca-Cola was found in the news for this trip to São Paulo.

In the 30 days before this flight, the most common destinations for Coca-Cola's three tracked aircraft were Richmond, Virginia, with five landings; Marietta, Georgia, with four landings; and Roanoke, Virginia, with three landings. The Gulfstream G600 has a top speed of Mach 0.925, or 515 knots. It has four passenger zones.

This was the second visit by a Coca-Cola aircraft to São Paulo in four days, following the long flight from Florida on November 10.