Elon Musk's Gulfstream lands in San Francisco as xAI faces twin legal and market storms

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G550 N272BG was tracked departing Oxnard at 15:28 UTC on June 24 and landing at San Francisco International 41 minutes later. The short hop from the Southern California coast places the aircraft in the Bay Area late Tuesday afternoon.

If aboard, Elon Musk would arrive in San Francisco the same week xAI suffered its second legal loss to OpenAI — a trade-secret suit dismissed with prejudice on June 16, per a CoinGape report — and as his broader empire navigates fresh turbulence. Bloomberg noted that SpaceX sold $25 billion in investment-grade bonds on Tuesday to refinance debt from Musk's 2022 X acquisition and xAI's earlier borrowing, while The Daily Beast reported Musk lost trillionaire status after SpaceX shares dropped 30% from their June 16 peak. The trip also follows Reid Hoffman's public assessment of xAI as a "complete train wreck," as covered by Fortune on June 24.

The pattern fits Musk's recent movements: the aircraft shuttled between Austin, Hawthorne, and the Bay Area multiple times in the past week, including a June 22 flight from San Jose to Los Angeles and a June 23 return to Southern California. Musk's legal and financial entanglements continue to keep his Gulfstream in motion — though whether he was aboard this particular leg remains a matter of tracking, not confirmation.