Evan Spiegel's aircraft lands in Van Nuys after transatlantic flight

Evan Spiegel's Boeing 737 MAX 8 BBJ (N3E) was tracked flying from Gransden Lodge Airfield in the UK to Van Nuys Airport on June 28, a 10-hour 37-minute transatlantic crossing that reached 40,025 feet. The aircraft's recent flight history shows a pattern of European movements, including stops in Switzerland and Spain earlier this month, before this return to the Los Angeles area.

If aboard, Evan Spiegel would arrive back in Southern California the same week his company Snap Inc. unveiled its sixth-generation AR glasses, called Specs, at the Augmented World Expo 2026 on June 16, per a WWD report. The $2,195 consumer glasses, available for preorder, feature a global campaign photographed by Steven Meisel and star five "Visionaries" including Jack Harlow and Kaia Gerber. Separately, the Los Angeles Times reported on June 26 that Spiegel and his wife Miranda Kerr quietly made a multimillion-dollar donation to Undue Medical Debt, erasing $550 million in unpaid medical bills for more than 261,000 Californians.

Spiegel's home base is Santa Monica Airport, and Van Nuys serves as a common alternate for the region. The aircraft's European itinerary over the past two weeks — including flights to Mallorca and Switzerland — suggests a business trip that, if Spiegel was aboard, would coincide with both the AR glasses launch and the couple's charitable initiative, two major developments for the Snap co-founder this spring.