Tyler Perry lands in Chicago after a charitable detour through Goshen

Tyler Perry flew from Goshen, Indiana to Chicago Midway on Wednesday afternoon in his Embraer E-190, tail number N378TP. The 32-minute hop from KGSH to KMDW followed a northern route; earlier that morning the aircraft had tracked toward the Great Lakes region. Goshen sits about 150 miles east of Chicago, making the final leg a short repositioning after whatever business or personal stop occurred in northern Indiana.

The same week the flight touched down in Chicago, two separate sexual assault lawsuits against Perry remain active in federal and state court. Derek Dixon’s $260 million suit is pending in Georgia federal court; Mario Rodriguez’s $77 million suit is in California state court, with Perry and Lionsgate having filed motions to dismiss, per lawsuitsjournal.com. Perry has not spoken publicly; his attorneys have called the cases “money grabs.” Separately, the philanthropic gesture that made headlines in March—Perry’s attempt to hand out $250,000 in Visa gift cards to TSA workers at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson—was rebuffed by federal policy, though his team later delivered the cards through approved channels, as theexclusivepress.com reported.

Perry keeps a fleet based in Atlanta and has built an 856-acre estate in Douglasville, Georgia complete with its own runway. He is a licensed pilot who frequently flies between his home base and Caribbean properties in the Bahamas. The brief stop in Goshen and subsequent arrival in Chicago suggest a day of meetings or personal travel; no public events or court dates were scheduled in the Chicago area for this date. The flight fits a pattern of unannounced trips that orbit Perry’s legal calendar and his studio operations in Atlanta.