Coca-Cola's Gulfstream G600 N966RW lands at Uberlândia after 37-minute flight from São Paulo

The Coca-Cola Company's Gulfstream G600, tail number N966RW, landed at Asas do Cerrado Airstrip in Uberlândia, Brazil, on Friday, November 13, 2026. The flight departed from São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport at 02:09 UTC and touched down at 02:46 UTC, spending 37 minutes in the air.

The departure airport, São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport, has a longest runway of 12,139 feet and sits at an elevation of 2,461 feet. The arrival field, Asas do Cerrado Airstrip, is at 2,864 feet elevation. Before this flight, N966RW had been on the ground for about one hour after its previous tracked landing in São Paulo on November 13.

The trip covered a great-circle distance of 283 nautical miles, or 325 miles. The aircraft flew at an average ground speed of 457 knots and reached a top speed of 533 knots. Its highest altitude was 40,000 feet. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 272 US gallons of fuel and released about 2,616 kg of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 6,475 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 Uberlândia by any of Coca-Cola's three tracked aircraft in the window from October 19 to November 13. The home base for Coca-Cola's fleet is Fulton County Airport Brown Field in Atlanta, 3,788 nautical miles from Uberlândia. In the 30 days before this flight, the owner's aircraft flew 33 flights totaling 71.2 hours in the air, with about 301,119 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. Earlier on November 13, the same aircraft flew from Guatapará to São Paulo, a 143-nautical-mile trip that took 33 minutes.

In the 30-day window before this flight, the most common destinations for all three of Coca-Cola's tracked aircraft were Richmond, Virginia, with five landings; Marietta, Georgia, with four landings; and Roanoke, Virginia, with three landings. On November 11, N966RW flew from Frutal to Gavião Peixoto, a 14-minute, 93-nautical-mile trip. The same day, N886RW flew from Roanoke to Richmond in 34 minutes covering 127 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 do not match a date, but other aircraft in the fleet use numbers like 886 for 1886, the year the formula was created.

The Gulfstream G600 is a stretched version of the G500 and has four passenger zones. Its top speed is Mach 0.925, or 515 knots. The aircraft burns an estimated 440 US gallons of fuel per hour. Coca-Cola's three tracked G600s are all registered to Bank of Utah Trustee, a standard owner-shield.

This flight from São Paulo to Uberlândia used about 4 percent of the aircraft's range.