Phil Knight's Gulfstream G500 N19HT lands at Eugene after 18-minute hop from Redmond

Phil Knight's Gulfstream G500, tail number N19HT, landed at Eugene Airport (KEUG) on Saturday, October 31, 2026, at 18:36 UTC. The aircraft departed Roberts Field (KRDM) in Redmond, Oregon, at 18:19 UTC and spent 18 minutes in the air. This was the second leg of a day that began with a flight from Portland to Redmond earlier on the same aircraft.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 63 nm, or 72 miles. The flight reached a highest altitude of 13,950 feet and a top ground speed of 381 knots. Our estimate puts fuel burned at about 111 US gallons and CO2 at about 1,071 kg, roughly equal to driving a car 2,650 miles. The Gulfstream G500 is a large cabin jet with a published range of 5,300 nm, a top speed of Mach 0.925, and a ceiling of 51,000 feet. It can seat up to 19 passengers and has been in service since 2018.

This was the second landing at Eugene in the tracked window from September 6 to October 31. The previous one was on October 10, 21 days before this flight, also by N19HT. The home base on file for both of Phil Knight's aircraft is Portland Hillsboro Airport (KHIO), 86 nm from Eugene. The usual destinations on file include Dublin, Rome, Benbecula, Seattle, Portland, and Reno. In the 30 days before this flight, the fleet made 25 flights, spent 60.8 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. No specific event or meeting near Eugene was found in public sources for this date.

The aircraft returned to 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 used only 1 percent of its range on this leg. The average ground speed was 213 knots. The departure airport in Redmond has a longest runway of 7,038 feet and sits at 3,080 feet elevation. The arrival airport in Eugene has a longest runway of 8,009 feet and an elevation of 374 feet.

In the tracked window from September 6 to October 31, all of Phil Knight's aircraft made 38 flights. The most common destinations were Portland with 14 landings, Redmond with 8 landings, and Los Angeles with 3 landings. Before this flight, the aircraft had been on the ground for about one hour at Redmond.