Tyler Perry lands in Barcelona as film production ramps across Europe

Tyler Perry flew from Atlanta to Barcelona’s Josep Tarradellas-El Prat Airport on June 7, a 3-hour-6-minute Atlantic crossing aboard his Embraer E-190, N378TP. The aircraft — a converted 100-seat regional jet the filmmaker and licensed pilot acquired for roughly $65 million — touched down at LEBL just after 6 a.m. local time.

The trip comes as production activity on the continent remains high heading into summer, with multiple major studios scheduling shoots in Spain and southern France. Barcelona has become a hub for international film and series projects in recent years, and Perry, who owns Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, has been expanding his production footprint outside of the U.S. The arrival follows a pattern of overseas travel this spring: flight records show his aircraft visited Nice and Madrid in mid-May, per celebplanes.com tracking data.

Perry’s 856-acre estate in Douglasville, Georgia, includes its own private airstrip, but this week it was Barcelona’s tarmac that hosted his parked E-190 — not an unusual stop for a filmmaker who chased a fear of flying into a pilot’s license and a four-aircraft hangar. The reason for this particular journey likely involves production meetings or location scouting in Catalonia, though no specific event or appearance has been publicly confirmed.