Phil Knight's Gulfstream G650 N1KE lands at Hillsboro after 3-minute hop from Redmond

Phil Knight's Gulfstream G650, tail number N1KE, landed at Portland Hillsboro Airport (KHIO) on Saturday, November 14, 2026, at 18:36 UTC. The aircraft departed Roberts Field (KRDM) in Redmond, Oregon, at 18:32 UTC and spent 3 minutes in the air. This was the second tracked flight for N1KE on November 14, following a 32-minute flight from Hillsboro to Redmond earlier that day.

Redmond's Roberts Field has a longest runway of 7,038 feet and sits at an elevation of 3,080 feet. Hillsboro's longest runway is 6,600 feet at an elevation of 208 feet. The Gulfstream G650, launched in 2005, holds more than 110 speed records. The aircraft burns about 460 US gallons of fuel per hour.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 20 nm, or 23 miles. The aircraft reached a highest altitude of 14,125 feet and a top ground speed of 367 knots. Our estimate puts fuel burned at about 25 US gallons and CO2 at about 239 kg, roughly equal to driving a car 592 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 less than 1 percent of the aircraft's range.

This was the 17th landing at Portland by Knight's fleet in the tracked window from October 10 to November 14, and the previous one was on November 12, when N19HT, a Gulfstream G500, arrived from Los Angeles. 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 45.9 hours in the air, and visited 10 airports in 2 countries.

In the tracked window from October 10 to November 14, 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 Portland was found in public sources for this date.

The aircraft had been on the ground for only a few minutes before this flight, since its previous tracked landing at Redmond earlier on November 14. 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 108 nm leg from Hillsboro to Redmond earlier on November 14.