Coca-Cola Gulfstream G600 N890RW flies 455 nm from Indiantown to Marietta in 1 hour 23 minutes

A Gulfstream G600 registered N890RW, one of three tracked Coca-Cola aircraft, departed Indiantown Airport at 21:36 UTC and touched down at Marietta at 22:59 UTC, spending 1 hour and 23 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance was 455 nautical miles (523 miles). The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 328 knots and peaked at 512 knots. Estimates put fuel burn at about 610 US gallons and CO2 emissions at about 5,856 kg.

The Gulfstream 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. The flight used about 7 percent of the aircraft's range. N890RW is a 2025 airframe registered to Bank of Utah Trustee, a standard arrangement that shields the owner's name from the public registry. The plane is now at Dobbins Air Reserve Base.

This was the third landing at Marietta by any of Coca-Cola's three tracked aircraft between October 19 and October 28. The previous one was on October 22, when N966RW, another Gulfstream G600, landed there after a flight from Salt Lake City. The fleet's home base is Fulton County Airport Brown Field in Atlanta, 8 nautical miles from Dobbins.

In the 30 days before this flight, the owner's aircraft flew nine flights totaling 22.4 hours in the air, emitting about 94,673 kg of CO2. The longest leg in that period was a 2,117 nm flight from Monterey to Richmond on October 22 by N886RW, another Gulfstream. Two other tracked aircraft landed at Marietta in the 24 hours before this arrival: a Bombardier Global 7500 belonging to Arthur Blank about 19 hours earlier, and a Norfolk Southern Embraer Praetor 500 about 6 hours earlier.

The Coca-Cola Company has bought Gulfstreams since the 1960s and operates three Gulfstream G600s from Fulton County Airport Brown Field. The RW in N890RW refers to Robert W. Woodruff, who ran Coca-Cola from 1923 to 1954; other fleet numbers, such as 886, reference 1886, the year the formula was created.

Dobbins Air Reserve Base is near the company's home base and is a common stop for corporate flights.

A 455 nm hop that uses roughly 7 percent of an ultra long range jet's capability illustrates how corporate flight departments mix short repositioning and regional legs with the occasional long sector, such as the 2,117 nm Monterey to Richmond flight. For a fleet of three G600s, that mix shapes utilisation, fuel burn and emissions totals.

Several tracked business jets, including aircraft linked to other well-known owners, arriving at Marietta within a day of one another shows how a single airport near a corporate hub can concentrate traffic from different flight departments. Trust-based registration keeps ownership off the public registry, yet flight tracking still exposes where each tail goes and how much it burns.

The next arrivals at Marietta by any of the three tracked Coca-Cola aircraft would show whether the October 19 to 30 cluster of landings is a pattern or a short run.