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If aboard, the short hop from Las Vegas lines up with the early stages of his new dementia drama.
By celebplanes · 2 min read · Dwayne Johnson

Dwayne Johnson
Dwayne Johnson's Bombardier Global 7500, registered N1089, was tracked departing Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas at 23:04 UTC on August 12, 2026, and arriving at San Diego International Airport one hour later. The flight, climbing to 28,000 feet at a maximum ground speed of 440.8 knots, marks the aircraft's second movement in three days after a short hop from an unknown location to Las Vegas on August 11. As with all Celebplanes data, the transponder signals confirm the plane's path — not its occupants; whoever sat in the cabin, the aircraft is now parked in San Diego.
If Dwayne Johnson was aboard, he would land in San Diego the same week his new dramatic feature 'Free Byrd' enters an active pre-production phase. Per a Los Angeles Weekly Times report on July 13, 2026, Johnson is attached to star as a Las Vegas motorcycle stuntman concealing a dementia diagnosis from his brother. Greg Kwedar, fresh off the Oscar-nominated 'Sing Sing', is set to direct, with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's Artists Equity producing. The film represents Johnson's most serious acting swing since 'The Smashing Machine' earlier this year, which garnered career-best reviews but no Academy Award nomination — a result the actor told press "lit a fire in his spine."


Aboard the Bombardier Global 7500


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San Diego's role in the production is not yet specified in any public casting notice or location permit, but the city's proximity to Los Angeles, its sound stages, and its reliable aviation infrastructure make it a plausible base for script readings, stunt design, or meetings with Kwedar's creative team. The aircraft's recent track record supports a pattern of project-linked positioning: on July 13, the same day 'Free Byrd' was announced, N1089 flew from Garfield County, Colorado to Hollywood Burbank, putting the plane — and potentially Johnson — in the Los Angeles basin as the news broke.
The San Diego arrival also fits a broader rhythm. Johnson's Global 7500, managed by Silver Air and typically stationed at Van Nuys Airport, has logged 106 flight hours and 41 tracked movements since Celebplanes began monitoring. Recent months show a mix of Colorado getaways, European sojourns (Palermo, Athens, Venice in late July), and Texas stops — Dallas Love Field on June 30, Arlington on July 3. The Las Vegas-to-San Diego leg, however, is the first direct routing between those cities in Johnson's tracked history.
Whether Dwayne Johnson was in the cabin or not, the aircraft's movements continue to shadow his professional calendar. A one-hour hop from Las Vegas to San Diego, arriving just after midnight, is the kind of quiet logistics move that precedes a closed-door creative meeting — the sort that happens before cameras roll, casting is announced, or a stunt coordinator starts planning that last jump.