N40JD Provo Arrival
A Beechcraft Premier 1 (6-seat light business jet) registered N40JD is listed in flight records circulated by independent investigators as one of several private aircraft arriving at Provo Municipal Airport (PVU) on September 10, 2025, the day Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University in nearby Orem. It is on the investigation's aircraft list for one narrow reason: to build a complete picture of who flew into Provo around the event so that no traveler is overlooked. Nothing in the public record ties this aircraft, its crew, or its passengers to the shooting.
Aircraft identification
- Tail number: N40JD
- Type: Beechcraft Premier 1 — light business jet, reported 6 seats
- Registry / operator / owner: Not publicly identified in the investigation record; FAA registration would name the registrant.
- Program / callsign: None reported. Tracked by its civil registration N40JD.
- Role on the list: A private aircraft logged arriving at Provo (PVU) on the afternoon of September 10, 2025.
Flight history relevant to the case
As reproduced from flight-record screenshots circulated by independent investigators:
- Departed Scottsdale, Arizona at ~12:27 p.m. local.
- Arrived into Provo (PVU) at ~2:29 p.m. MDT.
This is an afternoon arrival, after the shooting (the shot was fired shortly after noon MDT). The same set of records groups N40JD with the other same-day inbound private jets — Charlie Kirk's own aircraft N102DZ, which reached Provo at ~3:31 p.m., and N872RA, which arrived from Santa Barbara at ~4:36 p.m. The morning flight that first drew Candace Owens' attention, N560TW, is a separate aircraft on the same Provo list. No public reporting establishes a connection among these flights beyond their shared destination and date.
Theories about the aircraft's role
The flight's public tracking has been referenced in podcasts and independent investigations as part of broader arrival/departure pattern analysis around UVU and Provo. Some of those investigator discussions have, according to commentary circulated on X, connected the flight to figures such as Tyler Bowyer, a Turning Point USA figure.
That association is reported by commentators and unproven. There is no evidence in the public record tying Mr. Bowyer, the aircraft, its crew, or its passengers to the event, and no wrongdoing by him is alleged or established. It is noted here only to explain why the flight has drawn discussion. The page treats N40JD as an open item on a manifest-review list — not as a theory of involvement.
The 2:29 p.m. Provo arrival time has also been swept into the broader Israel/Egyptian-plane theory circulating on X. An unverified screenshot, shared in those threads, claims that a parked Egyptian-registered jet (SU-BND) sitting on the ground at Provo on September 10 powered its transponder on only three times that day, and labels the third of those moments as a 2:29 p.m. Provo landing — the same minute these records log N40JD touching down. That is the entire connection: a matching clock time on a screenshot, presented by its poster as significant.
This is an unverified online claim, not established fact, and it should be read with the same skepticism the rest of the Israel/Egyptian-plane material draws. Critics such as Liz Wheeler argue these overlap claims rely on loose criteria and that several rest on UTC versus local time-zone errors in the underlying logs, which can make unrelated events appear synchronized. Grok and other reviewers note that public ADS-B data shows aircraft activity but establishes no proven surveillance or assassination link, and the official finding remains a lone shooter. Nothing about the shared 2:29 p.m. timestamp identifies who was aboard N40JD or ties the flight to any plan.
Why this flight is scrutinized
N40JD earns its place on the investigation list because, per some discussions and X OSINT, its arrival into Provo has been flagged as mysterious or scrutinized within the event window — described by some posters as occurring pre- or around the September 10 timeframe rather than cleanly after it. The aircraft is flagged in citizen timelines that catalog every plane logged at PVU around the assassination.
- Treated as part of a broader Provo/UVU arrival and departure pattern analysis circulating on X, where investigators map who flew in and out around the event.
- Tracked in podcasts and independent investigations rather than mainstream reporting; public ADS-B history is the underlying data.
- Tied, per some discussions and unconfirmed, to private operators with possible links to TPUSA figures such as Tyler Bowyer — an association that is alleged, unverified, and not established as fact. No wrongdoing by Mr. Bowyer is alleged or proven, and nothing connects him, the crew, or the passengers to the shooting.
- Public details remain limited — the operator, owner, and occupants are not named in the public record, which is part of why the flight stays an open item.
These points reflect online commentary and citizen-timeline framing, not confirmed findings. They are recorded here to explain the scrutiny, not to assert that the flight had any role in the event.
Open questions
- Who was aboard N40JD on the September 10 arrival into Provo?
- Who is the registered owner and operator of the aircraft?
- What was the stated purpose of the trip, and where did the occupants go after landing at PVU?
- Is there any documented connection between this flight and any named individual, or is the association purely commentary?
Aircraft identification, confirmed
The FAA Civil Aviation Registry confirms the reported type and corrects the seat count. N40JD is a Raytheon Aircraft Company 390 — a Premier I light jet — serial RB-35, 8 seats in the type record (not 6), registered to NUP Aviation LLC of Princeton, Illinois.
What this aircraft would cost to buy new today
- Type (FAA-confirmed): Raytheon Aircraft Company 390 (Premier I), serial RB-35
- Registered owner: NUP AVIATION LLC (Princeton IL)
- Still built today? No — Premier I/IA ended with Hawker Beechcraft
- Priced against: Cessna Citation CJ3 Gen2
- Cost to buy new today: ~$11 million
Premier I out of production. Nearest new light jets are the Citation CJ3 Gen2 ($10.99M) and the Embraer Phenom 300E ($11.0M).
List price is for a green airframe — interior completion, avionics options and any mission equipment are extra, and fleet buyers do not pay list. The full table for all 33 priced airframes in this investigation, with the method behind each figure, is on Aircraft Costs.
Flight data recovery
Coverage for this tail is thin rather than absent — 10, 12 and 11 days across the three independent archives, and airplanes.live stops carrying it after 16 October 2025. Thin coverage is what a lightly-flown private aircraft over a sparse volunteer receiver network looks like; it is not evidence of anything having been taken away. The FlightRadar24 page loads in a browser and served 56 history rows on 24 August 2026.
| Source | What it holds for N40JD |
|---|---|
adsb.lol globe_history | 10 days, 2 Sep 2025 – 16 Sep 2025 |
| globe.airplanes.live | 12 days, 2 Sep 2025 – 16 Oct 2025 |
| ADS-B Exchange monthly sample | 11 days, 1 Jun 2022 – 1 Apr 2026 |
| FlightRadar24 page | HTTP 200 in a browser on 24 Aug 2026; 56 history rows on the free seven-day tier; older history paywalled |
| Internet Archive | 1 page snapshot held (FlightRadar24, 22 May 2022); 0 flight rows recovered off it — that capture's flight table was present but empty |
Nothing here was found to have been removed. No tracking site was found to have taken this aircraft's page down. Our scripted probe recorded HTTP 403 from FlightRadar24, RadarBox and Planespotters — but the identical script got the identical 403 for five unrelated control aircraft chosen for having nothing to do with this case, so a 403 is a robot block and says nothing about this tail. See What A 403 Actually Means.
Where a day is absent from an archive, that means a volunteer receiver network heard nothing on that day. It does not establish that the aircraft did not fly, and it does not establish that a transponder was switched off. Both free daily archives begin in 2023, so every 2022 date is untestable by construction rather than missing.
The raw files are on disk at site/docs/Planes/N40JD/data/recovered/ — the source is in every
filename, and each file carries a .meta.json sidecar recording the source, the URL, the HTTP
status, the byte count and the date, so any line above can be checked without trusting this page.
More: Flight Data Recovery · Per-Aircraft Status
Interesting In This Area
- It is one of several Provo arrivals logged that day.
- N560TW ran a short out-and-back through the same field that morning.
- The September 10 timeline is where these arrivals are ordered.
- Nothing public ties this aircraft to the event, which the index states.
Interesting In Other Areas
- Provo Municipal is a ten to twelve minute drive from campus.
- The day-of timeline puts every arrival against the 12:23 anchor.
- Trusted investigators is a useful filter before believing any tail claim.
- Discovery and Brady disputes decide whether records like these ever surface.
Other Pages In This Section
The weakest-sourced aircraft entry on the site: a turboprop reportedly seen circling near campus, with no tail number and no flight track at all. It is catalogued so the claim is logged and clearly caveated.
Read thisA C-37A Gulfstream tracked into Fort Huachuca two days before the shooting, tied by an anonymous tipster to a reported meeting of about twelve lieutenant colonels. The flight is public record; the meeting is not.
Read thisThe minute-by-minute aviation timeline for September 10 — the transponder window, the afternoon arrival, the hospital timing conflict. It is where the aircraft claims either line up with the clock or fail to.
Read thisElsewhere In The Investigation
The airfield ten minutes from campus, where a badge-access list was reportedly updated the day after the shooting and an Egypt-registered Falcon had sat since September 4. Reported questions, not established facts.
Read thisSeptember 10, 2025 – Day-of Timeline
Midnight to midnight on Utah's clock: the pre-dawn aircraft picture, the camera sightings from 8:07 AM, the 12:23:30 shot, the hospital run, and the evening flights. Every line labelled reported or claimed.
Read thisA reported 600,000-file production arrived while the DNA chain-of-custody material the defense asked for reportedly did not. The fight over what the defense received is now the fight over what the public will ever see.
Read thisSources
- Flight-record screenshots of Provo (PVU) arrivals circulated by independent investigators (the same compilation that lists N102DZ, N872RA, and N560TW).
- Public ADS-B flight-tracking history for tail N40JD.
- FAA aircraft registration records for the tail number.
- Podcast and X/OSINT discussion of Provo arrival/departure patterns around September 10, 2025.
Laws (Charlie Kirk)
- The passenger manifest and operator records for N40JD's September 10 arrival into Provo are exactly the kind of records the proposed Charlie Kirk Investigation Laws are designed to force into the open, so that arrivals can be cleared or examined on evidence rather than speculation.
Citizen Investigator Claims on X
(Aircraft OSINT and attributed claims — not findings that any pilot, passenger, or official ordered or carried out the assassination.)
- Citizen OSINT tracks N-numbers near TPUSA events, Provo FBO activity, and foreign VIP tails; flight logs ≠ intent.
- Competing tallies exist for “shadowing” Charlie vs Erika; debunk and counter-debunk cycles continue on X.
- This page’s focus (N40JD Provo Arrival) should be read with the Planes overview and Sept 10 flight timeline for cross-checks.
This website's author is @HolonCitizen on X and YouTube/@HolonCitizen. Follow me there.
Interesting
- Two Egyptian jets reportedly shadowed Erika Kirk's locations dozens of times.
- Agents reportedly barred the surgeon from the room during a call to DC.
- Nearly a year on, the treating physician has still never been named publicly.
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Track This Aircraft
Research this aircraft's flight history yourself on both major flight-tracking sites. They differ in one important way:
- FlightRadar24 — N40JD — large commercial tracker that honors the FAA's LADD block list, so flights an owner or the government has asked to hide can be missing.
- ADS-B Exchange — N40JD — volunteer-fed, unfiltered tracker that does not honor LADD, so it often shows blocked aircraft and tracks the filtered sites leave out.