Phil Knight's Gulfstream G650 N1KE lands at Redmond after 21-minute flight from Eugene

Phil Knight's Gulfstream G650, tail number N1KE, landed at Roberts Field (KRDM) in Redmond, Oregon, on Sunday, November 15, 2026, at 01:22 UTC. The aircraft departed Eugene Airport (KEUG) at 01:01 UTC and spent 21 minutes in the air. This was the second tracked flight for N1KE since it flew from Redmond back to Hillsboro on November 14.

The Gulfstream G650 holds more than 110 speed records and was launched in 2005. The aircraft burns an estimated 460 US gallons of fuel per hour. Roberts Field's longest runway is 7,038 feet, and the airport sits at an elevation of 3,080 feet. Eugene Airport's longest runway is 8,009 feet, at an elevation of 374 feet.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 92 nm, or 106 miles. The flight averaged 263 knots ground speed and reached a highest altitude of 13,250 feet and a top ground speed of 424 knots. Our estimate puts fuel burned at about 161 US gallons and CO2 at about 1,543 kg, roughly equal to driving a car 3,819 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 1 percent of the aircraft's range.

The most common destinations were Portland with 17 landings, Redmond with 11 landings, and Los Angeles with 3 landings. The longest leg in that period was Savannah to Los Angeles on October 26, covering 1,868 nm, flown by the other aircraft, N19HT.

This was the 12th landing at Redmond by Knight's fleet in the tracked window from October 11 to November 14, and the previous one was on November 14, 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 32 flights, spent 36.4 hours in the air, and visited 9 airports in 1 country.

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 aircraft had been on the ground for about 6 hours before this flight, since its previous tracked landing at Portland on November 14. On November 14, the same aircraft flew from Portland to Redmond and then back to Portland. The aircraft returned to its home base after a brief outing to central Oregon.