SpaceX flies to Brownsville the week of its IPO roadshow and Terafab approval

SpaceX flew from Los Angeles International Airport to Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport on June 10, 2026, a 2-hour-44-minute hop aboard its employee shuttle N154TS, a 2002 Boeing 737-800. The aircraft, which makes the LAX-to-Brownsville run roughly three times a week, landed at 17:56 UTC.

The same week, per a Cryptobriefing report, SpaceX is on the cusp of going public on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX, with a roadshow that kicked off June 8. The IPO, targeting a valuation between $1.75 trillion and $1.8 trillion, is expected to create some 4,000 new millionaires among the workforce. Meanwhile, as ConchoValleyHomepage.com reported on June 10, Grimes County commissioners approved a 100% tax abatement for SpaceX's planned Terafab facility, a 100-million-square-foot semiconductor plant projected to cost between $55 billion and $119 billion.

With a billionaire-making IPO pending and a megafactory approved in Texas, the shuttle's steady rhythm — LAX to Brownsville, Brownsville to LAX — looks less like routine and more like the logistics of a company scaling up fast. Recent flights show the pattern holding: N154TS cycled through Brownsville and Los Angeles on June 8 as well, ferrying staff to where the work is.