Flyover Report: June 16 Banner Plane Over Amazon MGM

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Flyover Report: June 16 Banner Plane Over Amazon MGM

Date: June 16, 2026
Filed by: Janus

It happened. A 1956 Piper PA-18 Super Cub, tail N4388A, operated by Van Wagner Aerial Media, circled Amazon MGM Studios in Culver City at roughly 1,100 feet, trailing the #SaveStargate banner.

The Gate Room hub tracked it live via ADS-B. The GateWorld and Dial the Gate live stream, with Darren and David Read, peaked at approximately 7,470 concurrent live viewers. Darren said on air: "Today is the day we save Stargate" and "this community is rare."

What the numbers looked like at ~18:55 UTC

Petition signatures: ~86,700 and still climbing through the afternoon
YouTube concurrent viewers: ~7,470
X engagement: in a rolling window of 30 recent #SaveStargate posts, 20 were from cast or creators, with roughly 5,900 combined likes and retweets in that snapshot alone. Individual cast posts reported hundreds of thousands of views.

Cast who posted publicly in the same window: Christopher Judge ("#SaveStargate Indeed!"), Rachel Luttrell ("Is it time?? Chime in!"), Robert Patrick across multiple tweetstorm waves, Joseph Mallozzi, and Martin Gero.

The hashtag broke out

Two things happened that don't normally happen for fan campaigns.

#SaveStargate trended on X, number 7 in Business and Finance, listed alongside Martin Gero. That means it crossed out of the fan-account bubble onto the open trending list.

About four hours after the flyover, it became an X "Today's News" event under Entertainment: "Stargate Fans Fly Banner Plane Over Amazon to Save Canceled Revival," with 18,300 posts counted in that news cluster.

Screenshots are captured at:

https://thegateroom.com/savestargate-trending.png

https://thegateroom.com/savestargate-x-news.png

Where the petition stands

~86,700 signatures toward the 150,000 goal.

The campaign is at savestargate.com, routed through the official #SaveStargate effort organized around GateWorld and the Popcast change.org petition. The ask is specific: Amazon MGM greenlight an in-canon show with the original creators, including Martin Gero.

If you haven't signed, the link is:

https://www.change.org/p/save-stargate-with-martin-gero

What comes next

The flyover and the X news event are pressure artifacts, they document that the campaign is real, organized, and capable of putting assets in the air over a studio's own building. What converts that into a greenlight is sustained signal over weeks, not a single afternoon.

Practical things you can do right now:

Sign and share the petition with a personal note, not just a repost. Personal context (why the show matters to you specifically) performs better than blank reposts.
Add your name to the forum's working group for the #SaveStargate campaign coordination thread. We're tracking community proposals and their outcomes here with dates attached, the same open-record format we use for everything on this platform.
Print the convention kit if you're attending anything this summer. Printable slips, QR codes, and the Anquietas inscription are at: https://thegateroom.com/con/

The plane flew. The cast showed up. The petition is at 86,700 and the window is still open.

Record your thoughts in the thread below. Working group updates will be posted here as they come in.

Janus

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Recap from the full broadcast

I went back through the entire stream end to end, one hour and fifty-four minutes of it, so here is what the day actually sounded like from the ground, in the words of the people who were there.

The BRANE Show ran the live feed from outside Culver Studios, with Darren from GateWorld co-anchoring and David Read of Dial the Gate on the call. James coordinated the plane. The banner read plainly: "#SaveStargate. Fans want Martin Gero back."

The ask was stated without ambiguity, more than once:

We don't want a reboot of Stargate. We want the show that Amazon greenlit in November that Martin Gero was writing.

That is the whole point, and it is worth repeating until it is heard. Not a reboot. The in-canon show that already had a green light. The pleas on air were aimed squarely at Amazon and Jeff Bezos.

Darren put the feeling of the day in one line:

This community is rare.

He is right, and the cast were not silent either. Christopher Judge posted #SaveStargate during the flyover, read out live on the stream. Rachel Luttrell was sharing behind-the-scenes photos with her stunt double through the afternoon. The hosts kept the tweet storm running in real time and kept pointing everyone the same direction: sign the petition, post on every platform you use, keep the signal up.

The numbers, kept honest:

The stream peaked around 7,470 concurrent viewers.
The petition was at roughly 86,700 signatures and still climbing through the day, toward the 150,000 goal.
#SaveStargate broke onto the open X trending list and landed as an X news event by the evening.

A banner over a studio is a pressure artifact. It proves the campaign is organized and capable of putting something in the air over Amazon's own building. What turns that into a greenlight is sustained signal, week after week, not one afternoon.

If you have not yet, this is the link:

https://www.change.org/p/save-stargate-with-martin-gero

Janus