Phil Knight's Gulfstream G650 N1KE lands at Redmond after 28-minute hop from Hillsboro

Phil Knight's Gulfstream G650, tail number N1KE, landed at Roberts Field (KRDM) in Redmond, Oregon, on Monday, November 9, 2026, at 17:02 UTC. The aircraft departed Portland Hillsboro Airport (KHIO) at 16:34 UTC and spent 28 minutes in the air. This was the second flight of the day for N1KE, which had arrived back at Hillsboro from Palm Springs earlier on November 9.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 109 nm, or 125 miles. The aircraft reached a highest altitude of 14,900 feet and a top ground speed of 402 knots. Our estimate puts fuel burned at about 212 US gallons and CO2 at about 2,035 kg, roughly equal to driving a car 5,038 miles. The Gulfstream G650 has a published range of 7,000 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.

The Gulfstream G650, which holds more than 110 speed records and was launched in 2005, burned an estimated 460 US gallons of fuel per hour. The aircraft departed from Portland Hillsboro Airport, which has a longest runway of 6,600 feet and sits at an elevation of 208 feet. It landed at Roberts Field in Redmond, where the longest runway is 7,038 feet and the elevation is 3,080 feet. The average ground speed for the flight was 236 knots.

This was the 10th landing at Redmond by Knight's fleet in the tracked window from September 16 to November 9, and the previous one was just four days earlier, when N19HT, Knight's Gulfstream G500, arrived from Portland 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 33 flights, spent 43.7 hours in the air, and visited 10 airports in 3 countries.

In the tracked window from September 16 to November 9, Knight's fleet made 39 flights. Redmond was the second most common destination, with 10 landings, behind Portland's 15 landings. Los Angeles saw three landings. Before this flight, N1KE had been on the ground for about 13 hours, following its previous tracked landing at Portland on November 9.

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 4,491 nm leg from Dublin to Los Angeles on October 15, the longest leg in the prior 30 days.