Phil Knight's Gulfstream G500 N19HT returns to Hillsboro from Redmond in 26 minutes

Phil Knight's Gulfstream G500, tail number N19HT, landed at Portland Hillsboro Airport (KHIO) on Friday, November 6, 2026, at 00:38 UTC. The aircraft departed Roberts Field (KRDM) in Redmond, Oregon, at 00:12 UTC and spent 26 minutes in the air. This was the fourth short flight between the two airports in the past two days.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 102 nm, or 118 miles. The aircraft reached a highest altitude of 15,750 feet and a top ground speed of 385 knots. Our estimate puts fuel burned at about 164 US gallons and CO2 at about 1,572 kg, roughly equal to driving a car 3,890 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 16 to November 5, and the previous one was just one day earlier, when N19HT arrived from Redmond on November 5. 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 31 flights, spent 48.8 hours in the air, and visited 10 airports in 3 countries. The longest leg in that window was from Los Angeles to Farnborough on October 7, covering 4,729 nm, flown by N1KE, a Gulfstream G650.

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. No public event or meeting near Redmond or Portland was found in web sources for this date.

The aircraft is back at its home base after a brief outing to central Oregon. The flight adds to a busy stretch that included a round trip to Palm Springs on November 4.

The aircraft's average ground speed on this flight was 237 knots. Redmond's Roberts Field has a longest runway of 7,038 feet at an elevation of 3,080 feet. Portland Hillsboro Airport's longest runway is 6,600 feet at 208 feet elevation. The Gulfstream G500 burns an estimated 380 US gallons of fuel per hour.

In the tracked window from September 16 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. The previous tracked landing before this flight was at Redmond on November 5, with about zero hours on the ground before departure.