Coca-Cola Gulfstream G600 N886RW Flies 127 nm From Roanoke to Richmond in 34 Minutes
Why It MattersShort regional hops by large-cabin jets such as the G600 show corporate fleets using long-range aircraft for routine point-to-point travel, concentrating traffic at secondary airports like Richmond.
The Coca-Cola Company's Gulfstream G600, registration N886RW, flew from Roanoke–Blacksburg Regional Airport to Richmond on November 11, 2026. It departed at 18:53 UTC and landed at 19:26 UTC, spending 34 minutes in the air. The great-circle distance was 127 nautical miles (146 miles). The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 227 knots and reached a top speed of 416 knots. Estimates put fuel burn at about 246 US gallons and CO2 emissions at about 2,365 kg.
This was the fifth landing at Richmond by any of Coca-Cola's three tracked aircraft between October 19 and November 11. The previous one came on November 6, when N886RW also arrived from Roanoke. Earlier on November 11, the same aircraft flew from Phoenix to Roanoke, a 1,578-nautical-mile trip lasting 3 hours 13 minutes. On November 9, it flew from Richmond to Roanoke, a 29-minute, 128-nautical-mile trip.
In the 30 days before this flight, the owner's aircraft logged 30 flights totaling 69.9 hours in the air, with about 295,450 kg of CO2 emitted. The most common destinations were Marietta and Richmond, with four landings each. Two other tracked aircraft landed at Richmond in the preceding 24 hours: a Gulfstream G450 operated by Dominion Energy about 24 hours earlier, and an Embraer Praetor 600 operated by NextEra Energy about 16 hours earlier. On November 10, another Coca-Cola G600, N966RW, flew from Pinellas Park to São Paulo, a 3,728-nautical-mile leg lasting 8 hours 16 minutes.
N886RW is a 2019 airframe, serial number 73023, one of three Gulfstream G600s tracked to Coca-Cola, all registered to Bank of Utah Trustee. The fleet is based at Fulton County Airport Brown Field in Atlanta, 416 nautical miles from Richmond. The G600 has a range of 6,600 nm, a ceiling of 51,000 feet, a top speed of Mach 0.925 (515 knots) and seats up to 19. The flight used about 2 percent of its range.
