Elon Musk's G800 lands in San Jose as OpenAI trial dominates Bay Area courts

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G800, tail N8628, was tracked flying from Hollywood Burbank to San Jose on June 27, a 48-minute hop that arrived at Norman Y. Mineta International shortly after 2 p.m. local time. The aircraft departed Burbank at 1:24 p.m. and touched down at 2:12 p.m., according to flight data.

If Elon Musk was aboard, the visit would come the same week jury selection began in his blockbuster lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman in Oakland federal court, per an NBC Bay Area report. The trial, overseen by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, centers on claims that OpenAI abandoned its nonprofit mission — a case that opened Monday with media and protesters outside the courthouse, as covered by the San Francisco Chronicle.

The movement follows a pattern of Bay Area visits this month: the aircraft made a round trip to Moffett Field on June 17, the day after xAI's second legal loss to OpenAI, per Celebplanes tracking. This latest landing places the tech mogul's aircraft within striking distance of both the Oakland courtroom and xAI's Silicon Valley operations, where Project Maven's use of Grok for targeting remains a subject of Pentagon interest.