Ron DeSantis flies to Palm Beach the week he signs Florida's new congressional map

Ron DeSantis flew from Tallahassee to Palm Beach on May 12, 2026, aboard the state-owned Cessna Citation Latitude N943FL. The 82-minute flight landed at KPBI just after 7 p.m. local time.

The trip comes the same week DeSantis is expected to sign Florida's newly approved congressional redistricting map into law, a plan passed during a two-day special session that ended April 29. Per a CBS12 report, the map would flip four U.S. House seats from Democratic to Republican control and is already drawing promises of legal challenges from advocacy groups who call the mid-decade redraw unconstitutional gerrymandering. DeSantis has defended the changes as necessary to reflect population growth.

The flight to Palm Beach follows a busy stretch of state-aircraft travel. Over the prior week, DeSantis flew from Tallahassee to Fort Myers, Miami, and Jacksonville, with multiple legs tracked by the DeSantisJet account. The governor's travel records have been shielded from public scrutiny since a 2023 law he signed, but the pattern suggests a governor using the state plane to press his case for the new map and maintain his national profile ahead of a potential 2028 run.