Phil Knight's Gulfstream G650 N1KE lands at Hillsboro after 23-minute hop from Redmond

Phil Knight's Gulfstream G650, tail number N1KE, landed at Portland Hillsboro Airport (KHIO) on Monday, November 9, 2026, at 18:39 UTC. The aircraft departed Roberts Field (KRDM) in Redmond, Oregon, at 18:16 UTC and spent 23 minutes in the air. This was the second flight of the day for N1KE, which had arrived at Redmond from Hillsboro earlier on November 9.

The flight from Redmond to Hillsboro averaged 342 knots ground speed. Redmond's Roberts Field has a longest runway of 7,038 feet at an elevation of 3,080 feet. Hillsboro's longest runway is 6,600 feet at 208 feet elevation.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 130 nm, or 150 miles. The aircraft reached a highest altitude of 15,875 feet and a top ground speed of 410 knots. Our estimate puts fuel burned at about 175 US gallons and CO2 at about 1,685 kg, roughly equal to driving a car 4,172 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.

This was the 14th landing at Portland by Knight's fleet in the tracked window from September 22 to November 9, and the previous one was just hours earlier, when N1KE arrived from Palm Springs 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 32 flights, spent 43.4 hours in the air, and visited 10 airports in 3 countries.

In the tracked window from September 22 to November 9, the Knight fleet made 39 flights. The most common destinations were Portland with 14 landings, Redmond with 11, and Los Angeles with 3. The longest leg in that period was Dublin to Los Angeles on October 15, covering 4,491 nautical miles.

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 five-acre property purchased in 2012. The Knight family owns about 20 to 21 percent of Nike through Swoosh LLC, controlling about 78.5 percent of Class A voting shares. The Phil and Penny Knight Foundation has donated over $4 billion, including $2 billion to the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute in August 2025. No specific event or meeting near Redmond or Hillsboro was found in public sources for this date.

The Gulfstream G650 holds more than 110 speed records and was launched in 2005. The aircraft's estimated fuel burn is 460 US gallons per hour.

The aircraft returned to its home base after a brief outing to central Oregon. The flight adds to a busy day that included a 777 nm leg from Palm Springs to Portland earlier on November 9, the longest leg on that day.