Elon Musk's G550 circles Hawthorne in a two-minute hop

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G550, tail N272BG, departed and returned to Jack Northrop Field in Hawthorne, California on June 5, 2026, in a two-minute flight that reached just 1,300 feet. The aircraft did not leave the airport's immediate vicinity, suggesting a maintenance check, a crew repositioning, or a systems test rather than a passenger trip.

Hawthorne is the operational base for Falcon Landing LLC, the SpaceX-linked entity that owns Musk's fleet, and is adjacent to SpaceX's headquarters. Short repositioning flights of this kind are standard across corporate aviation and do not indicate a change in Musk's location or schedule.

Musk's fleet logged 355 flights in 2024, per [celebplanes.com](https://www.celebplanes.com/celebrity/elon-musk), with the G550s frequently used for regional hops between Hawthorne, Brownsville, and San Jose. This particular flight appears to be a routine operational movement with no external event driving it.