Phil Knight's Gulfstream G650 N1KE lands at Redmond after 32-minute flight from Hillsboro

Phil Knight's Gulfstream G650, tail number N1KE, landed at Roberts Field (KRDM) in Redmond, Oregon, on Saturday, November 14, 2026, at 18:07 UTC. The aircraft departed Portland Hillsboro Airport (KHIO) at 17:34 UTC and spent 32 minutes in the air. This was the first tracked flight for N1KE since November 9, when it flew from Redmond back to Hillsboro.

The arrival airport, Roberts Field, has a longest runway of 7,038 feet and sits at an elevation of 3,080 feet. The departure airport, Portland Hillsboro, has a longest runway of 6,600 feet and an elevation of 208 feet. The great-circle distance from the home base to Redmond is 109 nm.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 108 nm, or 124 miles. The flight averaged 199 knots ground speed and reached a highest altitude of 15,175 feet and a top ground speed of 427 knots. Our estimate puts fuel burned at about 249 US gallons and CO2 at about 2,389 kg, roughly equal to driving a car 5,913 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 12th landing at Redmond by Knight's fleet in the tracked window from October 10 to November 12, and the previous one was on November 9, when N1KE arrived from Hillsboro. 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 45.4 hours in the air, and visited 10 airports in 2 countries.

In the tracked window from October 10 to November 12, the owner's two aircraft made 40 flights. The most common destinations were Portland with 16 landings, Redmond with 12 landings, and Los Angeles with 3 landings. The longest leg in that period was a 4,491 nm flight from Dublin to Los Angeles on October 15.

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 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 had been on the ground for about 5 days before this flight, since its previous tracked landing at Portland on November 9. On November 12, the owner's other aircraft, a Gulfstream G500, flew from Los Angeles to Portland, from Oakland to Los Angeles, and from Portland to Oakland.

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.