Elon Musk lands in Los Angeles hours before SpaceX order books close

Elon Musk flew from Seattle's Kenmore Air Harbor Seaplane Base to Los Angeles on the evening of June 10, 2026, aboard the Gulfstream G550 N272BG. The two-hour, four-minute trip touched down in the LA basin shortly after the banks running SpaceX's initial public offering stopped taking institutional orders, per Bloomberg and Reuters.

The same week SpaceX's IPO drew more than $250 billion in orders for a $75 billion stock sale — roughly three and a half to four times the offering, Reuters reported — Musk made a brief appearance on several investor Zoom calls from the road. The IPO, expected to price June 11 and begin trading June 12 on Nasdaq under SPCX, includes xAI's space data center ambitions alongside Starlink and launch services. The company's president and finance chief spent the day at Morgan Stanley's midtown Manhattan offices pitching long-only funds, but Musk kept a lower profile, dropping into calls from a seaplane base north of Seattle and now from Southern California.

The Los Angeles area is a recurring destination for Musk: he owns no property there, but the region hosts SpaceX's Hawthorne headquarters and the company's Vandenberg launch operations. The flight pattern — from Washington state to LA, on a day when multiple Musk-owned jets moved between Texas, Washington, Florida, and New Jersey — reflects a founder managing a $1.75 trillion debut while facing a federal lawsuit in Mississippi over data center noise, filed June 9. The order book, however, was the more immediate priority. [bloomberg.com](https://www.bloomberg.com/), [reuters.com](https://www.reuters.com/), [easternherald.com](https://easternherald.com/2026/06/10/spacex-ipo-oversubscribed-record-250-billion-demand/)