Phil Knight's Gulfstream G650 N1KE lands at Hillsboro after 22-minute hop from Redmond

Phil Knight's Gulfstream G650, tail number N1KE, landed at Portland Hillsboro Airport (KHIO) on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, at 17:08 UTC. The aircraft departed Roberts Field (KRDM) in Redmond, Oregon, at 16:47 UTC and spent 22 minutes in the air. The flight covered a great-circle distance of 95 nm, or 109 miles. This was the second leg of a short round trip that began with a morning flight from Hillsboro to Redmond on the same aircraft.

The Gulfstream G650 is an ultra long range jet with a published range of 7,000 nm and a top speed of Mach 0.925. It can seat up to 19 passengers and has a ceiling of 51,000 feet. On this flight, the aircraft reached a highest altitude of 15,925 feet and a top ground speed of 365 knots. Our estimate puts fuel burned at about 165 US gallons and CO2 at about 1,590 kg, roughly equal to driving a car 3,935 miles. The flight used only 1% of the aircraft's range.

This was the 12th landing at Portland in the tracked window from September 4 to October 28, and the previous one was just one day earlier, when N19HT, a Gulfstream G500, arrived from Los Angeles on October 27. Portland Hillsboro is the home base on file for both of Phil Knight's aircraft. The usual destinations on file include Dublin, Rome, Benbecula, Seattle, Portland, and Reno. In the 30 days before this flight, the two aircraft made 21 flights, spent 58.9 hours in the air, and visited 10 airports in 3 countries.

Phil Knight is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Nike, Inc., with a net worth of about $35.7 billion. He lives in Hillsboro on a property purchased in 2012, and his fleet is hangared at Hillsboro Airport in a 29,000-square-foot facility built in 2014. The Knight family controls about 78.5% of Nike's Class A voting shares through Swoosh LLC.

The aircraft is back at its home base after a brief outing to central Oregon. The flight adds to a busy month that included a 4,729 nm leg from Los Angeles to Farnborough on October 7, the longest leg in the prior 30 days.

The aircraft's average ground speed on this leg was 263 knots. Redmond's Roberts Field has a longest runway of 7,038 feet at an elevation of 3,080 feet. Hillsboro's longest runway is 6,600 feet at 208 feet elevation. The Gulfstream G650 holds more than 110 speed records and was launched in 2005.

In the tracked window from September 4 to October 28, the owner's two aircraft made 38 flights. The most common destinations were Portland with 12 landings, Redmond with 8, and Los Angeles with 3. The aircraft spent about one hour on the ground before this flight, following a previous tracked landing at Redmond earlier on October 28.

Another tracked aircraft, a Gulfstream III owned by Magic Johnson, landed at Portland about 16 hours before N1KE. The Knight family owns about 20 to 21 percent of Nike through Swoosh LLC. Knight has donated more than $4 billion through the Phil and Penny Knight Foundation, including $2 billion to the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute in August 2025.