Phil Knight's Gulfstream G500 N19HT lands at Redmond after 28-minute flight from Hillsboro

Phil Knight's Gulfstream G500, tail number N19HT, flew from Portland Hillsboro Airport to Roberts Field in Redmond, Oregon, on Thursday, November 5, 2026. The aircraft departed at 17:42 UTC and landed at 18:10 UTC, spending 28 minutes in the air. This was a short flight for a jet built to cover 5,300 nm at a top speed of Mach 0.925.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 109 nm, or 125 miles. The aircraft reached a highest altitude of 14,725 feet and a top ground speed of 424 knots. Our estimate puts fuel burned at about 179 US gallons and CO2 at about 1,719 kg, roughly equal to driving a car 4,254 miles. 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 aircraft's average ground speed on this leg was 231 knots. Roberts Field's longest runway is 7,038 feet at an elevation of 3,080 feet. Hillsboro Airport's longest runway is 6,600 feet at 208 feet elevation. The Gulfstream G500 has a Symmetry flight deck with scaled-down G650 technology. Our estimate for fuel burn is 380 US gallons per hour.

This was the 10th landing at Redmond for Phil Knight's fleet in the tracked window from September 10 to November 4. The previous landing at Redmond was on November 1, 2026, by the same Gulfstream G500. Portland Hillsboro is the home base on file for both of 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 47.4 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. Central Oregon is home to several golf courses and resorts, and Knight has been involved in Oregon business and philanthropy for decades. The Phil and Penny Knight Foundation has donated over $4 billion, including $2 billion to OHSU Knight Cancer Institute. No specific event or meeting near Redmond was found in public sources for this date.

Before this flight, the aircraft had been on the ground for about 37 hours. Its previous tracked landing was on November 4 at Portland. On that day, it flew from Palm Springs to Portland in 1 hour 58 minutes covering 790 nm, and earlier from Portland to Palm Springs in 1 hour 49 minutes covering 782 nm. In the tracked window from September 10 to November 4, the owner's two aircraft made 38 flights. The most common destinations were Portland with 15 landings, Redmond with 9 landings, and Los Angeles with 3 landings.

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.