Phil Knight's Gulfstream G650 N1KE returns to Hillsboro after 21-minute flight from Redmond

Phil Knight's Gulfstream G650, tail number N1KE, landed at Portland Hillsboro Airport (KHIO) on Sunday, November 15, 2026, at 02:08 UTC. The aircraft departed Roberts Field (KRDM) in Redmond, Oregon, at 01:48 UTC and spent 21 minutes in the air. This was the second tracked flight for N1KE since it flew from Eugene to Redmond earlier the same day.

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

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 131 nm, or 151 miles. The flight averaged 380 knots ground speed and reached a highest altitude of 16,150 feet and a top ground speed of 399 knots. Our estimate puts fuel burned at about 159 US gallons and CO2 at about 1,525 kg, roughly equal to driving a car 3,774 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 16th landing at Portland by Knight's fleet in the tracked window from October 13 to November 15, and the previous one was on November 14, when N1KE arrived from Redmond. 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 33 flights, spent 36.7 hours in the air, and visited 9 airports in 1 country.

In the tracked window from October 13 to November 15, the owner's two aircraft made 39 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 Savannah to Los Angeles on October 26, covering 1,868 nm, flown by the Gulfstream G500.

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 about 0 hours before this flight, since its previous tracked landing at Redmond on November 15. The flight brought N1KE back to its home base after a brief outing to central Oregon.