Phil Knight's Gulfstream G650 N1KE returns to Hillsboro after 32-minute hop from Redmond

Phil Knight's Gulfstream G650, tail number N1KE, landed at Portland Hillsboro Airport in Oregon on Monday, November 9, 2026, at 23:27 UTC. The aircraft departed Roberts Field in Redmond, Oregon, at 22:55 UTC and spent 32 minutes in the air. This was the fourth flight of the day for N1KE, which had already flown from Hillsboro to Redmond and back twice earlier on November 9.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 113 nm, or 130 miles. The aircraft reached a highest altitude of 16,000 feet and a top ground speed of 395 knots. Our estimate puts fuel burned at about 248 US gallons and CO2 at about 2,384 kg, roughly equal to driving a car 5,900 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 October 2 to November 9, and the previous one was just hours earlier, when N1KE arrived from Palm Springs earlier on November 9. 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 34 flights, spent 44.2 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 two aircraft are hangared at Hillsboro Airport in a 29,000 square foot private hangar built for about $7.6 million 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's average ground speed on this leg was 209 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 aircraft returned to its home base after a busy day of short hops to central Oregon.

The Gulfstream G650 holds more than 110 speed records and was launched in 2005. It burns about 460 US gallons of fuel per hour. In the 30 days before this flight, the owner's two aircraft made 39 tracked flights and visited Portland 14 times. Redmond was the second most common destination with 12 landings, followed by Los Angeles with 3 landings.

The longest leg in that window was from Dublin to Los Angeles on October 15, covering 4,491 nautical miles. That flight was also in N1KE. Before this Redmond trip, the aircraft had been on the ground for about one hour after landing at Redmond from Palm Springs earlier on November 9.