Phil Knight's Gulfstream G500 N19HT lands at Hillsboro after 21-minute hop from Redmond

Phil Knight's Gulfstream G500, tail number N19HT, landed at Portland Hillsboro Airport (KHIO) on Sunday, November 1, 2026, at 01:07 UTC. The aircraft departed Roberts Field (KRDM) in Redmond, Oregon, at 00:46 UTC and spent 21 minutes in the air. This was the third leg of a short round trip that began with a flight from Portland to Redmond earlier on October 31.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 120 nm, or 138 miles. The aircraft reached a highest altitude of 16,025 feet and a top ground speed of 409 knots. Our estimate puts fuel burned at about 134 US gallons and CO2 at about 1,288 kg, roughly equal to driving a car 3,188 miles. The Gulfstream G500 has a published range of 5,300 nm and a top speed of Mach 0.925. It can seat up to 19 passengers and has a ceiling of 51,000 feet. This flight used only 2 percent of the aircraft's range.

The flight from Redmond to Portland averaged 340 knots ground speed. Redmond's Roberts Field has a longest runway of 7,038 feet at an elevation of 3,080 feet. Portland Hillsboro's longest runway is 6,600 feet at 208 feet elevation. The Gulfstream G500 burns an estimated 380 US gallons of fuel per hour.

This was the 14th landing at Portland in the tracked window from September 7 to October 31, and the previous one was just three days earlier, when N1KE, a Gulfstream G650, arrived from Redmond on October 29. 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 27 flights, spent 61.6 hours in the air, and visited 10 airports in 3 countries.

In the tracked window from September 7 to October 31, the Knight fleet made 38 flights. The most common destinations were Portland with 13 landings, Redmond with 9 landings, and Los Angeles with 3 landings. Before this flight, the aircraft had about zero hours on the ground after its previous tracked landing at Redmond on November 1.

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 owns about 20 to 21 percent of Nike through Swoosh LLC, controlling about 78.5 percent of Class A voting shares. 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.

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.