George Lucas lands in Burbank the week his $1B museum opens in LA

George Lucas flew from Moffett Federal Airfield (KNUQ) to Hollywood Burbank Airport (KBUR) on May 15, a 53-minute hop that brought him to the Los Angeles area the same week his long-delayed Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is making final preparations for its Sept. 22 opening in Exposition Park, per the San Francisco Chronicle.

The $1 billion museum, founded by Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, spans 300,000 square feet and will house more than 40,000 works of narrative art, including materials from Lucas's own filmmaking career. A 'Star Wars in Motion' exhibit was previewed at the museum earlier this month, as CNN reported on May 5.

The flight from Moffett Field — a NASA facility near Lucas's Skywalker Ranch — to Burbank follows a pattern of recent trips between the Bay Area and Southern California. In the week prior, his Gulfstream V shuttled between San Francisco and Santa Barbara on May 6, 7, 8, and 10, suggesting routine business tied to the museum's final construction and curatorial phase.