Brad Garlinghouse's jet lands at Point Mugu after a short hop from Santa Monica

A Bombardier Global 6000 registered to Brad Garlinghouse was tracked departing Santa Monica Municipal Airport at 00:45 UTC on June 25 and arriving at Naval Base Ventura County (Point Mugu) 31 minutes later, having climbed no higher than 700 feet. The aircraft, N100RP, has been operating a series of short hops around the Los Angeles area in recent days, consistent with a pattern of West Coast movements.

If Brad Garlinghouse was aboard, the early-morning arrival at Point Mugu — a naval air station often used for private aviation access to the Ventura and Santa Barbara region — comes the same week the Ripple CEO has been publicly advocating for the CLARITY Act, which cleared the Senate Banking Committee on May 14 per a CoinPedia report. Garlinghouse has described the bill as essential to codify the SEC-CFTC joint statement that classified XRP as a digital commodity, warning that without it, a future chair could reverse progress. Separately, as covered by Blockchain Echo, Ripple, JPMorgan, Mastercard, and Ondo Finance completed a test on the XRP Ledger on June 12 that settled a tokenized U.S. Treasury in roughly five seconds, a milestone Garlinghouse highlighted at Consensus 2026.

The flight caps a period of unusual local activity for N100RP, which has made repeated trips between Santa Monica, Point Mugu, and Oxnard-area airports since mid-June. Garlinghouse, who maintains a public profile split between San Francisco and Florida, keeps N100RP based at KSFO but has been operating predominantly from Southern California in recent weeks. Whether aboard or not, the aircraft's movements this week place the Ripple CEO's travel options within easy reach of both the Los Angeles conference circuit and the regulatory debates unfolding in Washington.