Target flies a brief sortie over Minnesota the week of its Q1 earnings aftermath

Target Corporation’s Gulfstream G280, tail number N484EM, departed from Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport at 1:00 p.m. local time on June 5, 2026, and landed at the same airport just three minutes later, reaching a maximum altitude of 2,325 feet. The brief sortie — little more than a local pattern — comes in the immediate wake of the retailer’s Q1 2026 earnings report on May 20, which showed same-store sales rising 5.6 percent, the first increase in that key metric in five quarters, per a CNBC report.

The flight, while too short to have a meaningful destination, follows a pattern of Target Corporation’s executive fleet activity: a day earlier, the same owner’s aircraft flew from Waterloo, Iowa, back to Minneapolis, and from a point near Kenyon, Minnesota, to an airstrip east of Cedar Falls. These hops align with routine moves between the Minneapolis headquarters and outlying facilities or supplier visits. The May 20 earnings call — in which new CEO Michael Fiddelke doubled the full-year sales forecast to about 4 percent growth, as covered by Reuters — set an optimistic but cautious tone for the year ahead.

This local flight, then, may be little more than a maintenance check or a quick repositioning. But it lands in Minneapolis the same week executives digest a quarter in which net sales grew 6.7 percent and digital sales surged 8.9 percent — a quiet lap around the home airfield while the boardroom plots the next leg of a turnaround.