Elon Musk flies to Teterboro the eve of SpaceX’s record IPO

Elon Musk flew from Fall City, Washington, to Teterboro, New Jersey, aboard his Gulfstream G550 (N272BG) on June 11, 2026, touching down at 7:17 p.m. local time after a 4-hour-25-minute flight from the Seattle-area airport. The trip lands Musk just across the Hudson from Manhattan the evening before his company SpaceX prices its initial public offering—the largest in history, per a TechCrunch report Thursday.

The timing is deliberate. SpaceX confirmed on June 11 it had priced 555.6 million shares at $135 each, raising $75 billion and valuing the company at nearly $1.8 trillion, according to the BBC and an SEC filing. Trading begins Friday on the Nasdaq under the ticker SP, and the debut is expected to make Musk the world’s first trillionaire. The flight from Washington state—where Musk had been earlier in the day—brings him to the New York area for what amounts to a market rite of passage.

This is Musk’s third flight to the Northeast in the past week, following trips to and from California and Texas earlier this month. The G550 is one of five Gulfstreams he operates through Falcon Landing LLC; the journey to Teterboro, a favored airport for private arrivals into Manhattan, fits a pattern of high-stakes business travel coinciding with regulatory and investor milestones.