George Lucas flies back to Bay Area after East Coast museum business

George Lucas flew from Richmond, Virginia, to the San Francisco Bay Area on the night of June 10–11, 2026, a five-hour hop in his Gulfstream V that touched down near Oakland just after 8 p.m. local time. The trip follows a string of East Coast visits in recent days, including stops in Chicago, New York, and Indiana.

The same week, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles announced its first slate of exhibitions, all curated by Lucas himself, per a Vogue feature this spring. The museum, set to open in September, will showcase Lucas’s personal collection of illustration and narrative art. While the flight landed near his home base at San Francisco International, the museum work—along with ongoing staffing changes and exhibition planning—has kept Lucas shuttling between coasts.

The return to California comes after a visit to Richmond, a city not on Lucas’s usual circuit. It is likely a routine return home after meetings tied to the museum’s upcoming debut, which has consumed much of his attention since he sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012.