Phil Knight's Gulfstream G500 N19HT lands at Hillsboro after flight from Palm Springs

Phil Knight's Gulfstream G500, tail number N19HT, landed at Portland Hillsboro Airport (KHIO) on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, at 04:36 UTC. The aircraft departed Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport (KTRM) in Palm Springs, California, at 02:38 UTC and spent 1 hour and 58 minutes in the air. This was the second leg of a short round trip that began with a flight from Portland to Palm Springs earlier the same day.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 790 nm, or 910 miles. The aircraft reached a highest altitude of 43,025 feet and a top ground speed of 515 knots. Our estimate puts fuel burned at about 745 US gallons and CO2 at about 7,159 kg, roughly equal to driving a car 17,720 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 15 percent of the aircraft's range.

This was the 15th landing at Portland in the tracked window from September 7 to November 4, and the previous one was just three days earlier, when N19HT arrived from Redmond on November 1. 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 28 flights, spent 55.5 hours in the air, and visited 11 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. Palm Springs is a common destination for private aircraft, and Knight has a history of travel to the area, though no specific event tied to this flight was found in public records.

The aircraft is back at its home base after a brief outing to southern California. 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 flight was 403 knots. Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport has a longest runway of 8,500 feet and sits at an elevation of 115 feet below sea level. Portland Hillsboro Airport's longest runway is 6,600 feet, with an elevation of 208 feet.

In the tracked window from September 7 to November 4, both of Phil Knight's aircraft made 38 flights. The most common destinations were Portland with 14 landings, Redmond with 9, and Los Angeles with 3.

The Gulfstream G500 has a Symmetry flight deck and uses scaled-down G650 technology. Our estimate puts fuel burn at 380 US gallons per hour. Phil Knight's other aircraft is N1KE, a Gulfstream G650.