Phil Knight's Gulfstream G500 N19HT lands at Redmond after 33-minute hop from Hillsboro

Phil Knight's Gulfstream G500, tail number N19HT, landed at Roberts Field (KRDM) in Redmond, Oregon, on Saturday, October 31, 2026, at 17:38 UTC. The aircraft departed Portland Hillsboro Airport (KHIO) at 17:05 UTC and spent 33 minutes in the air. 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 aircraft had been on the ground for about four days before this flight. Its previous tracked landing was on October 27 at Portland. In the tracked window from September 6 to October 29, the owner's two aircraft made 38 flights total. The most common destinations in that window were Portland with 14 landings, Redmond with 8, and Los Angeles with 3.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 109 nm, or 125 miles. The flight reached a highest altitude of 14,950 feet and a top ground speed of 379 knots. Our estimate puts fuel burned at about 210 US gallons and CO2 at about 2,022 kg, roughly equal to driving a car 5,005 miles. The Gulfstream G500 has a published range of 5,300 nm, a top speed of Mach 0.925, and a ceiling of 51,000 feet. It typically seats 10 passengers, with room for up to 19.

This was the 9th landing at Redmond in the tracked window from September 6 to October 29, and the previous one was just three days earlier, when N1KE, a Gulfstream G650, arrived from Portland on October 28. 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 24 flights, spent 60.3 hours in the air, and visited 10 airports in 3 countries.

The flight used about 2 percent of the aircraft's range. Average ground speed was 196 knots. Roberts Field has a longest runway of 7,038 feet at an elevation of 3,080 feet. Hillsboro Airport's longest runway is 6,600 feet at 208 feet elevation. The aircraft's estimated fuel burn is 380 US gallons per hour.

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 percent of Nike's Class A voting shares through Swoosh LLC. Central Oregon is home to several golf courses and resorts, and Knight has been involved in Oregon business and philanthropy for decades. No specific event or meeting near Redmond was found in public sources for this date.

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.