Phil Knight's Gulfstream G650 N1KE completes 11-minute circuit at Eugene

Phil Knight's Gulfstream G650, tail number N1KE, landed at Eugene Airport (KEUG) on Saturday, November 14, 2026, at 18:54 UTC. The aircraft had departed the same airport at 18:44 UTC and spent 11 minutes in the air. This was a short flight that began and ended at the same field.

The great-circle distance between departure and arrival was 19 nm, or 22 miles. The aircraft averaged 108 knots ground speed and reached a highest altitude of 5,025 feet and a top ground speed of 224 knots. Our estimate puts fuel burned at about 81 US gallons and CO2 at about 776 kg, roughly equal to driving a car 1,920 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 was the second landing at Eugene by Knight's fleet in the tracked window from October 11 to November 14. The previous one was on October 31, 14 days before this flight, when Knight's other aircraft, a Gulfstream G500 registered as N19HT, landed at Eugene. Portland Hillsboro is the home base on file for both of 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 46.0 hours in the air, and visited 10 airports in 2 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 5-plus 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 Eugene was found in public sources for this date.

The aircraft returned to its home base after a brief outing to central Oregon earlier on the same day. The flight adds to a busy day that included a 32-minute hop from Portland to Redmond and a 3-minute return leg from Redmond to Portland.

Eugene Airport sits at 374 feet elevation with a longest runway of 8,009 feet. The home base for both of Knight's aircraft, Portland Hillsboro Airport, is 86 nautical miles away. The Gulfstream G650, launched in 2005, holds more than 110 speed records and burns an estimated 460 US gallons of fuel per hour.

In the 30-day tracked window ending November 14, the owner's two aircraft made 40 flights. The most common destinations were Portland with 17 landings, Redmond with 12, and Los Angeles with three. The longest leg in that period was a 4,491-nautical-mile flight from Dublin to Los Angeles on October 15.