Shaquille O'Neal flies from Dallas to Trujillo the week of a massive Peruvian charity push

Shaquille O'Neal departed Dallas Fort Worth International Airport on the evening of May 17 and arrived at Capitán FAP Carlos Martínez de Pinillos International Airport in Trujillo, Peru, six hours and fourteen minutes later aboard his Bombardier Challenger 605, tail number N3250N. The flight touched down just after midnight local time on May 18.

The trip lands O'Neal in Peru the same week his foundation is reported to be scouting Latin American partners for a major expansion of its ‘Shaq-A-Claus’ holiday giveaway program, according to a recent report by Yahoo Sports. O'Neal has spoken publicly about wanting to bring the event, which distributes sneakers, laptops, and toys to underserved students, to all 50 states — and now appears to be laying groundwork abroad. Trujillo, a coastal city of nearly a million, lacks the private-jet infrastructure of Lima but offers direct access to Peru's northern school districts, where poverty rates top 25 percent.

The Dallas departure is notable after a week of cross-country repositioning: O'Neal flew from Las Vegas to Idaho on May 15, then to Massachusetts, then to Minnesota, California, and back through Dallas. The pattern suggests a deliberate routing toward a fixed engagement. For a celebrity who once swore he would never buy a private jet — then spent approximately $27 million on this Challenger 605, per GlobalAir — the Peru flight marks a rare international deployment of a machine typically seen at PDK in Atlanta or FLL in Fort Lauderdale.