Elon Musk's Gulfstream lands in Los Angeles the night of a Grimes County land deal

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G650ER, tail N628TS, was tracked flying from Austin-Bergstrom International to Los Angeles on June 27, a 2-hour-38-minute hop that touched down just after 7:38 p.m. local time. The aircraft departed its home base at 7:00 p.m. Central and landed at a general aviation field near Hawthorne, home to SpaceX headquarters.

If aboard, Elon Musk would arrive the same day news broke that WIT TECH LLC, a company connected to him, purchased six parcels in Grimes County, Texas, on May 27 — including a pump station on the Navasota River and the river itself, per KBTX. The acquisitions occurred one week before county commissioners approved a 100% tax abatement for the SpaceX Terafab chip project, a deal worth up to $119 billion. The timing would suggest the water infrastructure was secured ahead of the public vote.

The flight continues a busy week for the fleet: N628TS shuttled between Brownsville, Austin, and Northern California in recent days, while N272BG made a separate Bay Area visit on June 17 after xAI's second legal loss to OpenAI. Musk's aircraft have logged heavy political and legal travel in 2024-2026, with Palm Beach trips spiking after the election and the new G800 joining the fleet in February.