Elon Musk's Gulfstream touches down in Ireland as xAI's legal loss settles in

Elon Musk's aircraft, the Gulfstream G450 N450GG, was tracked departing KTPL in Central Texas early on June 27 and landing at EINN in Shannon, Ireland, after an 8-hour 26-minute Atlantic crossing. The jet reached 45,025 feet and a ground speed of 537 knots.

If Elon Musk was aboard, the timing of the landing would place him in Ireland just days after his AI company xAI suffered its second legal defeat to OpenAI in a month — a U.S. district judge dismissed xAI's trade secret lawsuit with prejudice on June 16, per [celebplanes.com](https://www.celebplanes.com/articles/elon-musk-flight-8663). The same week, the Pentagon confirmed it uses xAI's Grok chatbot for targeting strikes via Project Maven, a detail revealed in a Justice Department filing arguing xAI's Mississippi data center is vital to national security, as reported by [ibtimes.sg](https://www.ibtimes.sg) and [arynews.tv](https://www.arynews.tv).

This is not Musk's first Atlantic hop in the pattern — recent flights show the fleet shuttling between his Starbase home, Silicon Valley, and now Europe. Of note, SpaceX's 'Starpipe' natural gas pipeline plans were filed with the Texas Railroad Commission in May, per a Reuters report via [bilyonaryo.com](https://bilyonaryo.com/2026/06/26/spacex-plans-to-build-starpipe-natural-gas-pipeline-to-fuel-starship-rockets/technology/), signaling Musk's long game in Starship expansion even as his AI ventures navigate courtroom turbulence across the Atlantic.