SpaceX 737 shuttles employees to Brownsville for Starship work

SpaceX flew its Boeing 737-800, N154TS, from Los Angeles International Airport to Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport on June 5, 2026, arriving in the early morning hours. The aircraft, a 2002 737-800 acquired from Air China in 2023, serves as an employee shuttle, not an executive transport, per [celebplanes.com](https://www.celebplanes.com/celebrity/spacex).

The same week, SpaceX is preparing for the next Starship test flight from its Starbase facility near Brownsville, as covered by [Simple Flying](https://simpleflying.com/spacex-private-jets-guide/). The company's routine LAX↔Brownsville runs, roughly three times a week, move engineers and technicians between Hawthorne headquarters and the Texas launch site.

This flight is part of a pattern: N154TS has logged 116 flights in 2024, per [celebplanes.com](https://www.celebplanes.com/celebrity/spacex), with Brownsville and Los Angeles as its top two destinations. The grey-and-black livery and rooftop antennas, possibly for Starlink testing, have made it a fixture among planespotters, as noted by [The War Zone](https://www.twz.com/spacex-appears-to-be-flying-this-slick-looking-737).