Vanessa SwalesAlison Dirr
"Go Home Elon. Vote Susan," reads the banner flying behind a small plane, referencing liberal Dane County Judge Susan Crawford.
She will go head-to-head with Musk's preferred candidate, conservative Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel, in an election that a watchdog group has estimated could top a record $100 million in spending.
Crawford's spokesman said the plane was not her campaign's and he did not know whose it was.
Republican Party of Wisconsin Executive Director Andrew Iverson said in a statement, "Democrats have their heads in clouds focused on a man not even on the ballot. For those on the ground in Wisconsin, we know this race is about stopping the Dangerous Democrat agenda and electing Trump endorsed Brad Schimel."
President Donald Trump endorsed Schimel last week, and days later former President Barack Obama endorsed Crawford.
Musk and his groups have spent about $20 million on the campaign. On Wednesday night, he announced on his social media platform X a $1 million giveaway to a Green Bay voter who signed his super PAC's "Petition In Opposition To Activist Judges."
The single-engine plane flew out of Toledo Executive Airport in Ohio, landing at Brookfield's Capitol Airport Wednesday evening, according to Flight Aware.
About 10 a.m. Thursday the plane took to the skies again and primarily flew over Milwaukee's downtown and parts of the city's lakefront, a map of its flight path shows.
The plane is registered with the Federal Aviation Administration, and the owner is listed as Glass City Aviation Services LLC, a company registered in Delaware but reported as a tenant at the Toledo airport.
Efforts to reach Glass City were not immediately successful.
Wisconsin campaign finance reports show no payments from a Wisconsin campaign committee to Glass City over the past two years.
Daniel Bice of the Journal Sentinel staff contributed to this story.
Vanessa Swales can be reached at vswales@gannett.com. Alison Dirr can be reached at adirr@jrn.com.
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