Elon Musk’s latest flight from Austin to San Jose lands amid the xAI-SEC settlement week

Elon Musk’s Gulfstream G650ER, N628TS, departed Austin-Bergstrom International just before 03:00 UTC on May 26 and landed at Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International seventy minutes later. On May 27, the jet performed a brief 14-minute local hop between San Jose and Hawthorne — a common repositioning between SpaceX’s headquarters and the Bay Area — before returning to San Jose. The short flight on N628TS is consistent with a broader movement of Musk’s fleet this week: his G800, N8628, made the same Austin–San Jose run on May 26.

The visit lands in the same period the SEC is expected to finalize a settlement with xAI over alleged data irregularities tied to the company’s $6 billion funding round, per a Bloomberg report from earlier this month. Musk has also been shuttling between Tesla’s engineering hub in Palo Alto and SpaceX’s facilities in Hawthorne, with N272BG and N502SX showing back-to-back trips between KNUQ and KBRO over the past week.

The pattern reinforces a familiar rhythm: Musk rotates aircraft across his five-Gulfstream fleet to maintain coverage between Texas and California. With his primary G650ER now parked at San Jose, the stage is set for a week of high-stakes meetings — legal, regulatory, or merely operational — before the next flight back to Austin or Starbase.