Phil Knight's Gulfstream G500 N19HT lands at Redmond after 26-minute hop from Hillsboro

Phil Knight's Gulfstream G500, tail number N19HT, landed at Roberts Field (KRDM) in Redmond, Oregon, on Thursday, November 5, 2026, at 23:43 UTC. The aircraft departed Portland Hillsboro Airport (KHIO) at 23:17 UTC and spent 26 minutes in the air. This was the second flight of the day for N19HT, which had arrived back at Hillsboro from Redmond earlier on November 5.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 108 nm, or 124 miles. The aircraft reached a highest altitude of 14,750 feet and a top ground speed of 421 knots. Our estimate puts fuel burned at about 164 US gallons and CO2 at about 1,579 kg, roughly equal to driving a car 3,908 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 10th landing at Redmond by Knight's fleet in the tracked window from September 16 to November 5, and the previous one was just hours earlier, when N19HT arrived from Portland on the same day. 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 30 flights, spent 48.3 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. Redmond is in central Oregon, near Bend, a region Knight has visited before.

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's average ground speed on this leg was 249 knots. Roberts Field's longest runway is 7,038 feet, with an elevation of 3,080 feet. Portland Hillsboro's longest runway is 6,600 feet, at an elevation of 208 feet. The great-circle distance from home base to Redmond is 109 nautical miles.

In the tracked window from September 16 to November 5, the owner's two aircraft made 38 flights. Redmond saw 10 landings in that period, second only to Portland with 15. The aircraft had been on the ground about 4 hours before this flight, after arriving from Palm Springs the previous day.