Elon Musk lands at Moffett Field as xAI and Tesla deepen Bay Area ties

Elon Musk flew from Los Angeles International Airport to Moffett Federal Airfield on May 21, a 55-minute hop in his Gulfstream G550 (N272BG) that touched down at 7:10 a.m. local time. The aircraft had shuttled between the same two airports twice the day prior, suggesting a working visit rather than a simple repositioning.

The trip lands the same week xAI’s planned $6 billion Memphis supercomputer expansion faces a fresh round of environmental and utility regulatory hearings, per local reporting. Musk’s artificial-intelligence company has been racing to scale its Colossus cluster, and the Bay Area remains the operational nerve center for both Tesla’s engineering HQ in Palo Alto and xAI’s San Francisco office. Moffett Field, a NASA facility adjacent to Google’s campus, offers a discreet alternative to crowded commercial airports.

Musk’s fleet logged 355 flights in 2024, with San Jose and Hawthorne among the most frequent destinations. The pattern holds in May 2026: N272BG alone has visited the Bay Area six times in the past week, linking Los Angeles, Seattle, Memphis, and Washington D.C. into a single, tightly scheduled orbit. [grndcntrl.net](https://grndcntrl.net/articles/elon-musk-s-brand-new-private-jet-gulfstream-g800) [la-story.com](https://la-story.com/elon-musk-private-jet-fleet-aircraft-flight-data/)