No, I did it in the Japanese 980-- we went from Tokyo to Hillsboro. See the link above.

He did it in a 690B. I figured out the serial number, but don't have it handy-- I will look it up when I have a chance.

Very interesting. I flew many aircraft both ways on this route: MD80s /B737s / C500 / Citation Mustang / DA20s / LR31s / BE20s /BE90s / BAE31 / Piper Cheyenne 400LS and many others I have probably forgotten. This was during my decades delivering aircraft worldwide. It is a pity that it is no longer available, as it provided an easy transit between Asia and the US for shorter range aircraft. Earliest flight was in the 90's, things were in very poor shape - empty stores, crumbling ugly apartment buildings. By the later years' things had improved dramatically as the old regime loosened its grip. Weather forecasting, briefings etc. were always excellent. The runways, especially early on, were very rough. They had a novel way of deicing the runways - a jet engine mounted at 45 degrees downward on a truck, the hot jet blast routed through a narrow but wide outlet. This would be driven down the runway and taxi ways both clearing the snow and ice and drying at the same time. The noise was quite impressive. Never brought a Commander along this route but flew many across the Pacific and the Atlantic. Hopefully this lost routing will be opened again before too long.

I just read a very interesting book about a guy who flew his 690B to Petropavlovsk Russia in the early 1990s, becoming the first westerner to do so since Charles Lindbergh:

https://www.amazon.com/Cross-Winds-Adventure-Entrepreneurship-Russian-ebook/dp/B08DZDHLV7

It was quite a good read, and especially interesting to me as I did a similar trip in 2008, in a 980 (I only went one way, while he flew down and back). The second half of the book deals with his difficulties in doing business in Russia, which seem very much in common with how things are now, and how others have been treated (for a more recent read on this, I recommend the book "Red Notice").

It is sad in a way, because I would love to revisit Petro and the Kamchatka area generally, but I doubt that will be a possibility anytime soon.

I hope you do! Could you make that a renaissance airplane, or would that not be worth it?

Or is that even possible any more?