Elon Musk flies to Los Angeles amid SpaceX’s IPO week and a whistleblower lawsuit

Elon Musk flew from Sanderson Field in Washington to Compton Woodley Airport in Los Angeles on June 15, a 41-minute jaunt in his Gulfstream G550 N272BG that arrived at 11:28 a.m. local time. The brief hop from the Pacific Northwest — where he had been the previous day — lands him in Southern California the same week SpaceX begins trading on the Nasdaq, per a CNBC report that pegged his net worth at $1.05 trillion after the IPO, making him the world’s first trillionaire.

Musk’s arrival coincides with two legal fronts: a California jury dismissed his lawsuit against OpenAI on May 18 on statute-of-limitations grounds (a decision covered by the BBC and The Daring Creatives), leaving unresolved the question of whether OpenAI betrayed its nonprofit mission. Separately, a former xAI engineer named Devin Kim sued xAI and SpaceX on June 12, alleging he was fired for raising safety concerns about the Grok chatbot, as reported by The AI Insider. The new whistleblower complaint, filed days before SpaceX’s market debut, adds pressure to Musk’s sprawling corporate ecosystem.

The flight pattern shows Musk’s recent mobility: he was in the New York area on June 13, flew to Austin and then to San Jose, California, on June 14, before heading to Washington state. The G550 is a workhorse of his five-jet fleet, one of three Gulfstreams he uses for business crisscrossing the country as court orders now force Tesla and SpaceX emails into discovery for the Apple–OpenAI antitrust case.