DuPont's aircraft lands in Cleveland the week of a major PFAS settlement

DuPont's Gulfstream G550 (N581D) was tracked flying from Wilmington Airport (KILG) to Cuyahoga County Airport (KCGF) on June 24, 2026, a 57-minute hop covering about 320 nautical miles. The aircraft departed at 4:35 PM UTC and touched down at 5:32 PM UTC, cruising at 32,000 feet with a max ground speed of 447.7 knots.

If DuPont executives were aboard, they would arrive in the Cleveland area the same week the Trump administration announced a $450 million settlement with Chemours — a DuPont spin-off — over illegal discharges of PFAS 'forever chemicals' into rivers in West Virginia, North Carolina, and New Jersey, per an AP News report. The settlement does not resolve DuPont's own liability for past PFAS violations, and the company's home base in Wilmington, Delaware, is near the Delaware River, one of the affected waterways.

This flight follows a pattern of recent trips by N581D: on June 23, the aircraft shuttled between Cleveland and Wilmington twice, and on June 19 it made a round trip from Wilmington to Florida and back. The Cleveland-area airport serves as a convenient hub for the Great Lakes region, where DuPont's water-treatment and industrial customers are concentrated.