Phil Knight's Gulfstream G650 N1KE lands at Redmond from Hillsboro

Phil Knight's Gulfstream G650, registered as N1KE, flew from Portland Hillsboro Airport to Roberts Field in Redmond, Oregon, on Wednesday, October 28, 2026. The aircraft departed at 15:08 UTC and landed at 15:33 UTC, spending 25 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance between the two airports is 109 nm, or 125 miles. This is a short flight for a jet built to cover 7,000 nm at a top speed of Mach 0.925.

The flight reached a highest altitude of 14,925 feet and a top ground speed of 452 knots. The average ground speed was 257 knots. Our estimate puts fuel burned at about 194 US gallons, producing about 1,865 kg of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 4,615 miles. The Gulfstream G650 typically seats 12 passengers, with room for up to 19. It has been in service since 2012 and holds more than 110 speed records.

The Gulfstream G650 can fly as high as 51,000 feet, well above the 14,925 feet reached on this trip. The departure airport, Portland Hillsboro, has a longest runway of 6,600 feet and sits at 208 feet elevation. The arrival airport, Roberts Field in Redmond, has a longest runway of 7,038 feet and sits at 3,080 feet elevation.

This is the first landing at Redmond for N1KE in the tracked window, but not the first for Phil Knight's fleet. The other aircraft on file, a Gulfstream G500 registered as N19HT, landed at Redmond on October 13, 2026, 15 days before this flight. In the 30 days before this flight, the fleet made 20 flights, spending 58.5 hours in the air. The most common destinations in that window were Portland with 12 landings, Redmond with 7, and Los Angeles with 3.

Redmond is in central Oregon, near Bend, a region Knight has visited before. The flight comes after a 12-day gap since the previous tracked landing at Portland on October 16. Knight's fleet has also flown to Dublin, Rome, and Seattle in the past year.

The longest leg in that window was from Los Angeles to Farnborough, Hampshire, on October 7, covering 4,729 nm. That flight was made by N1KE, the same Gulfstream G650 that landed at Redmond on Wednesday.

The short hop to Redmond may be tied to Knight's known interests in the area. Central Oregon is home to several golf courses and resorts, and Knight has been involved in Oregon business and philanthropy for decades. The Phil and Penny Knight Foundation has donated over $4 billion, including $2 billion to OHSU Knight Cancer Institute. No specific event or meeting near Redmond was found in public sources for this date.

The day before this Redmond trip, the other aircraft in the fleet, a Gulfstream G500 registered as N19HT, flew from Los Angeles to Portland in 1 hour 55 minutes, covering 728 nm. That aircraft had also flown from Savannah to Los Angeles on October 26, and from Burbank to Savannah on October 25. The G500 made several other short hops in the days before, including Portland to Burbank and Van Nuys to Portland.

The aircraft returned to its home base at Hillsboro, where it is hangared in a 29,000-square-foot facility built in 2014. This flight used only 2% of the aircraft's range, a routine repositioning for a jet that has logged transatlantic trips in recent weeks. Whether Phil Knight was aboard is not confirmed by our data.