Elon Musk flies to Fullerton ahead of a SpaceX boost

Elon Musk flew a Gulfstream G550 (N272BG) from Memphis to Fullerton on June 7, 2026, a 2-hour-57-minute hop that touched down at Fullerton Municipal Airport just after midnight local time. Fullerton sits roughly 20 miles from SpaceX headquarters at Hawthorne, California, and serves as a practical gateway for visits to the company's engineering and manufacturing base.

The flight arrives the same week that SpaceX is expected to conduct a static-fire test of the next Starship prototype at the company's McGregor, Texas, facility, according to launch schedules tracked by space media. The Hawthorne-to-Brownsville corridor is the single most-flown route in Musk's fleet history, per flight data logged throughout 2024 and 2025, and the Memphis departure suggests a business stop before a run of Texas-bound trips.

Musk's G550 (N272BG) is one of two such aircraft registered under Falcon Landing LLC and has logged extensive regional duty between SpaceX sites, Tesla facilities, and political destinations. The trip fits a long-established pattern: engine tests and launch milestones are almost always preceded by a Gulfstream landing near Hawthorne or Starbase, as documented in the fleet's public flight logs. The reason this time is likely a round of preparations for the next Starship campaign.