Disney flies to Teterboro the same week Disneyland faces a chemical crisis

Disney flew from Hollywood Burbank Airport to Teterboro Airport on May 24, 2026, a 4-hour-20-minute trip aboard the Gulfstream G650ER tail number N397RW. The aircraft, one of several operated by The Walt Disney Company for senior executives, landed in New Jersey at 19:50 UTC.

The same week the flight touched down, a chemical storage tank at a GKN Aerospace plant in Garden Grove, less than a mile from Disneyland, overheated and began venting vapors. Evacuation orders affected 40,000 residents across six Orange County cities, as reported by the Associated Press on May 23 via clickorlando.com. Disneyland itself was not under evacuation, but the incident placed Disney's flagship resort in the shadow of a potential explosion. Separately, Disney's CFO Hugh Johnston had told an investor conference on May 14 that Walt Disney World is at capacity and that meaningful attendance growth requires physical expansion, per wdwmagic.com. The Teterboro arrival likely carried leadership to meetings concerning those pressures or other East Coast business, including Disney's ongoing $60 billion global parks investment cycle.

The flight follows a recent pattern of company aircraft movements; earlier that week, on May 21, a Disney aircraft flew from Burbank toward Mexico's Baja California coast before returning. The Walt Disney Company maintains a fleet of Gulfstreams for executive travel between its Burbank headquarters and key destinations including Orlando, New York, and international parks.