Phil Knight's Gulfstream G500 N19HT returns to Hillsboro after 31-minute hop from Redmond

Phil Knight's Gulfstream G500, tail number N19HT, landed at Portland Hillsboro Airport (KHIO) on Thursday, November 5, 2026, at 19:46 UTC. The aircraft departed Roberts Field (KRDM) in Redmond, Oregon, at 19:15 UTC and spent 31 minutes in the air. This was the second leg of a short round trip that began with a flight from Portland to Redmond earlier that same day.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 117 nm, or 135 miles. The aircraft reached a highest altitude of 15,700 feet and a top ground speed of 379 knots. Our estimate puts fuel burned at about 199 US gallons and CO2 at about 1,908 kg, roughly equal to driving a car 4,724 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.

This was the 15th landing at Portland in the tracked window from September 10 to November 5, and the previous one was just one day earlier, when N19HT arrived from Palm Springs on November 4. 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 29 flights, spent 47.8 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. 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.

The aircraft's average ground speed on this leg was 224 knots. Roberts Field's longest runway is 7,038 feet at an elevation of 3,080 feet. Portland Hillsboro's longest runway is 6,600 feet at an elevation of 208 feet. The Gulfstream G500 features a Symmetry flight deck, which is scaled-down G650 technology. The estimated fuel burn for this aircraft is 380 US gallons per hour.

In the tracked window from September 10 to November 5, the owner's two aircraft made 38 flights. The most common destinations were Portland with 15 landings, Redmond with 10 landings, and Los Angeles with 3 landings. Before this flight, the aircraft had been on the ground for about one hour after its previous tracked landing at Redmond on November 5.