Steve Wynn lands in San Francisco the week of the Getty challenge case hearing

Steve Wynn flew from Henderson Executive Airport in Las Vegas to San Francisco International Airport late on May 28, arriving just after midnight on May 29 in his Gulfstream G700, tail number N88WR. The 1-hour-15-minute hop from the desert to the Bay Area came at the end of a busy week of travel that had already shuttled him between Las Vegas, Dallas, and Los Angeles.

The same week the G700 landed in San Francisco, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit was scheduled to hear oral arguments in a closely watched art restitution case that involves multiple parties with ties to Wynn's former collection. Per a report in The Art Newspaper this week, the Getty Museum is challenging a claim by the heirs of a Holocaust victim over a 17th-century painting — a type of provenance dispute Wynn, a noted art collector who once owned pieces by Picasso and van Gogh, follows closely. Wynn also maintains real estate interests and social connections in the Bay Area.

The flight fits a pattern: Wynn has flown into the Bay Area repeatedly this month, including a May 23 trip from the same region, and often uses Las Vegas as a waypoint between his Palm Beach home and Western destinations. The late-hour arrival suggests a private timetable, not a commercial one.