KSLE — Salem-Willamette Valley Airport/McNary Field
2 aircraft this investigation tracks were recorded on the ground at Salem-Willamette Valley Airport/McNary Field, Salem, OR, across 7 recovered ground visits.
No recovered ground visit at this field falls inside the window of a sourced Charlie Kirk, Erika Kirk, or TPUSA event. That is a statement about the sourced event list and the recovered archive coverage, not a statement that nothing happened here.
Every recovered ground visit at this field
One row is one continuous run of on-ground positions. Times are UTC, exactly as the archives recorded them.
| Date (UTC) | Aircraft | What it is | Ground window (UTC) | km from field | Ground fixes | Near a sourced event? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-07 | N872RA | Santa Ana-based Hawker 800 | 21:53–21:56 | 0.24 | 39 | — |
| 2024-10-08 | N872RA | Santa Ana-based Hawker 800 | 14:21–14:44 | 0.33 | 107 | — |
| 2025-12-11 | N872RA | Santa Ana-based Hawker 800 | 00:28–00:30 | 0.58 | 26 | — |
| 2025-12-18 | N872RA | Santa Ana-based Hawker 800 | 18:45 only | 0.16 | 9 | — |
| 2026-08-12 | N102DZ | Gulfstream V reported as the Kirk family's | 01:05–01:08 | 0.04 | 9 | — |
| 2026-08-19 | N102DZ | Gulfstream V reported as the Kirk family's | 21:07 only | 0.28 | 1 | — |
| 2026-08-19 | N102DZ | Gulfstream V reported as the Kirk family's | 22:16–22:19 | 0.8 | 7 | — |
The field
Salem, OR. This page is the complete recovered record for this field: every ground visit and every flight leg by an aircraft this investigation tracks.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| ICAO / ident | KSLE |
| Name | Salem-Willamette Valley Airport/McNary Field |
| Where | Salem, OR |
| IATA | SLE |
| Type | medium airport |
| Elevation | 214 ft |
| Coordinates | 44.9095, -123.002998 |
| Scheduled airline service | yes |
| Aircraft tracked here | 2 |
| Recovered ground visits | 7 |
| Visits landing on a sourced event | 0 |
| Recovered flight legs | 0 |
What this page cannot tell you
- Presence is not purpose, and it is not occupancy. No ADS-B record places any person aboard any aircraft.
- An absent day is not an absent aircraft. Volunteer receiver coverage is uneven, and a jet parked with its transponder off is invisible. Absence here is a coverage fact.
- Every count on this page is a count of the aircraft this investigation tracks, not of everything that used the field. Most aircraft at a general-aviation airport are flight-school and charter traffic, and many carry the FAA's ordinary Limiting Aircraft Data Displayed privacy flag, which is a routine owner filing and not a sign of anything.
- 2022 is thin — the free archives begin in February 2023; before that only ADS-B Exchange's first-of-the-month sample days exist.
Related
- N102DZ — Gulfstream V reported as the Kirk family's
- N872RA — Santa Ana-based Hawker 800
- All airports in this investigation
- Every interesting date, all aircraft
- Investigating Deleted Flights
- Planes that followed Charlie and Erika