Coca-Cola's Gulfstream G600 N886RW flies 397 nm from Idaho Falls to Denver Centennial in 59 minutes
Why It MattersCorporate flight departments keep tracked ultra-long-range jets in steady, mixed-length use, so one owner's fleet can generate sizable per-aircraft flight hours and emissions within a single month.
The Coca-Cola Company's Gulfstream G600, tail number N886RW, landed at Centennial Airport in Denver on October 28 after a 397 nm flight from Idaho Falls Regional Airport. It departed at 22:24 UTC and touched down at 23:23 UTC, 59 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance was 397 nm (456 miles), flown at an average ground speed of 401 knots with a top speed of 549 knots. Estimated fuel burn was about 435 US gallons and CO2 emissions about 4,178 kg. Before this flight, N886RW had been on the ground for about 3 hours after a previous tracked landing at Dubois on October 28.
The G600 is an ultra long range jet with a range of 6,600 nm, a ceiling of 51,000 feet and seating for up to 19 passengers, so this leg used about 6 percent of its range. N886RW is a 2019 airframe, serial 73023, hex code AC35AB, and all three of Coca-Cola's tracked G600s are registered to Bank of Utah Trustee. None of the three had landed at Denver between October 19 and October 28. The fleet's home base is Fulton County Airport Brown Field in Atlanta, 1,036 nm from Centennial.
In the 30 days before this flight, the owner's aircraft flew 10 flights totaling 23.8 hours in the air, emitting about 100,529 kg of CO2. The longest leg in that period was a 2,117 nm flight from Monterey to Richmond on October 22 by N886RW, and the most common destination for the three tracked aircraft was Marietta, with 3 landings. On the same day, another Coca-Cola G600, N890RW, flew 455 nm from Indiantown to Marietta in 1 hour 23 minutes.
Centennial Airport has a longest runway of 10,001 feet and an elevation of 5,885 feet. No specific reason tied to Coca-Cola was found for the trip. The company has been buying Gulfstreams since the 1960s and runs its flight department from Fulton County Airport Brown Field on Atlanta's west side. The tail number carries company history: RW stands for Robert W. Woodruff, who ran Coca-Cola from 1923 to 1954, and 886 refers to 1886, the year the formula was first mixed in Atlanta.
