N55906 Cullen Flight
Tail number N55906 is an aircraft that independent investigator John Cullen (@I_am_JohnCullen) has repeatedly flagged as a second flight of interest in the Charlie Kirk case, naming it directly alongside the N1098L HADES surveillance plane. In Cullen's own framing, "HADES N1098L is the elephant in the room. N55906 is the gorilla in the room." Public reporting on N55906 is thin, and it is recorded here as an open lead worth pulling records on — not as an established finding.
Aircraft identification
- Tail number: N55906
- Type: Not confirmed in public reporting
- Registry / operator / owner: Not confirmed in public reporting
- Flagged by: John Cullen (@I_am_JohnCullen), who paired it with N1098L using the "elephant in the room" / "gorilla in the room" framing
Flight history relevant to the case
The public record contains no confirmed route, timestamps, or altitude data for N55906 in connection with September 10, 2025. What exists is Cullen's call to examine the tail number as part of the broader array of aircraft activity scrutinized around Utah Valley University. No dated flight log, ADS-B track, or arrival/departure pairing has been published that this page can responsibly cite. That absence is itself the point: investigators are asking for the records precisely because they are not yet public.
Theories about the aircraft's role
These are open, attributed theories — not conclusions.
- A paired surveillance asset (Cullen). John Cullen has publicly listed N55906 as an "interesting flight" worth examining alongside N1098L, the aircraft he describes as a HADES-class surveillance platform. The implication he raises is that more than one aircraft of interest may have been aloft in the relevant window. Cullen has not published a confirmed route or operator for N55906, so this remains a request to investigate rather than a documented finding.
- A transcription or data-entry artifact. Because N55906 differs from the better-documented N59906 by a single digit, one open possibility is that some references to "N55906" are a misreading of N59906, the MARC Inc. survey Piper. This page treats the two as distinct (see below), but does not rule out that the lead resolves to N59906 once records are pulled.
A note on the similar tail number
The investigation also tracks N59906 — the MARC Inc. Piper PA-31 Navajo Chieftain reported making five survey-pattern passes over the UVU campus at roughly 19,000 ft MSL. N55906 and N59906 differ by a single digit and should not be assumed to be the same aircraft. The investigation's aircraft list treats them as two distinct tail numbers; confirming whether N55906 is a genuinely separate flight or a transcription of N59906 is itself one of the open questions below.
OSINT tracking on X
N55906 surfaces almost entirely through open-source intelligence (OSINT) work on X, not through conventional reporting. John Cullen (@I_am_JohnCullen) and similar accounts on X have flagged the tail number and folded it into the extensive plane-array entries the investigation has been compiling — a running list of aircraft scrutinized for timing and patterns near the event. Per Cullen and these accounts, N55906 belongs in that array as one more flight worth pulling records on around September 10, 2025.
The tail number is highlighted in deep-dive threads on X, where it is discussed alongside N1098L and other aircraft of interest. All of this is alleged OSINT analysis: no operator, route, or wrongdoing is established here, and the framing reflects what these accounts have asked investigators to examine rather than any confirmed finding.
Tracked trip in the array
The investigation's plane array records N55906 as a flagged entry rather than a logged point-to-point flight:
- Route: Listed as "Various" with the note that it fits patterns near the event area — no single confirmed origin or destination is published.
- Timing: Tied to September 10, 2025 context and the broader event timeframe.
- Operators: Recorded only as "operators per OSINT" — no confirmed owner or operator in public reporting.
- Why it is listed: Per John Cullen and other X accounts, it is alleged to be part of broader suspicious aerial activity noted on X in the relevant window. This is an open lead, not a conclusion.
Open questions
- Is N55906 a distinct aircraft, or a misreading of N59906?
- What was N55906's route, and when was it near Utah relative to the September 10, 2025 event?
- Who is the registered owner and operator, and what is the aircraft type?
- What specifically prompted John Cullen to flag it alongside N1098L?
Why the digit-transposition risk is now higher, not lower
The case for keeping these two tails rigidly separate got stronger once the primary records for N59906 were published. That aircraft now has a full public identity attached to it — Mode S hex A7C14D, serial number 31-7552027, a 1974 Piper PA-31, operator MARC INC, squawking a discrete 4323 on a 2-hour-39-minute Provo→Provo sortie on September 10, 2025.
None of those identifiers belongs to N55906. When a post cites "the survey plane," "the Piper," "MARC Inc.," "the five passes over UVU," "the 19,000-foot mapping grid," or the ADS-B Exchange capture stamped 2025-09-10 18:06:10 Z, it is describing N59906, whatever tail number the post itself prints.
The practical rule for anyone auditing a claim about either aircraft: match on the hex code or the serial number, never on the printed registration. Registrations get retyped by hand and one digit slips; Mode S hex codes and MSNs are copied from tracker output and do not.
What a reader should do with a source that names this tail
Because so much of the circulating material transposes the digits, a claim naming N55906 falls into one of three buckets, and the third is the only one that belongs on this page:
- It repeats a detail that is documented for N59906 — the MARC Inc. operator, the survey payload, the September 10 morning passes, the Provo round trip. That is a mistyped reference to the other aircraft, and it should be read against N59906 instead.
- It repeats a detail that is documented for neither aircraft. Several of the anomalous-aircraft catalogs circulating on X list tail numbers with no supporting track, screenshot, or timestamp behind them. Those entries are unusable until someone produces the underlying record.
- It is genuinely about N55906 and carries its own evidence — its own tracker capture, its own hex code, its own timestamps. That is the only category worth building on, and it is by far the smallest.
As of this writing, no publicly circulated ADS-B capture, Flightradar24 playback card, or FAA registry screenshot has been produced that shows N55906 operating in the Utah Valley area on September 10, 2025. That absence is not proof the aircraft was elsewhere — it is proof that the claim has not been evidenced, which is a different and more useful thing to say.
Aircraft identification — what the FAA registry shows
This tail has been carried on this site as "not confirmed in public reporting." It is confirmable, and the answer materially weakens the claim built on it.
From the FAA Civil Aviation Registry:
- Type: Piper PA-28R-200 — a Cherokee Arrow
- Year built: 1973 · Serial number: 28R-7335308 · Seats: 4
- Registered owner: a private individual in Winter Park, Florida (not named here; this site does not publish the identifying details of private individuals with no established role in the case)
- Registration status: valid, certificate issued 2005
A PA-28R-200 is a single-engine, four-seat piston aircraft — a 1970s trainer and personal touring aeroplane. It is the kind of aircraft flown by private pilots on weekends. It cannot loiter at altitude, it carries no sensor capability, and it is one of the most common light aircraft types in the United States.
Why this matters to the claim
N55906 entered this investigation because investigator John Cullen repeatedly flagged it as "a second aircraft of interest" alongside N1098L, the US Army's Global 6500 ISR jet. Placing those two side by side implies they belong in the same category.
They do not. The comparison, in numbers:
| N55906 | N1098L | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Piper Cherokee Arrow | Bombardier Global 6500 |
| Built | 1973 | 2023 |
| Seats | 4 | 23 |
| Owner | private individual | LASAI Aviation II LLC (US Army HADES) |
| Cost new today | ~$0.5 million | ~$56–58 million |
A new Global 6500 costs roughly 116 times what a new Arrow costs. One is a national intelligence-collection platform; the other is a fifty-three-year-old four-seater.
There is also a plain explanation for how the two tails came to be discussed together: N55906 and N59906 differ by a single digit. N59906 is the Piper Navajo Chieftain reported to have flown survey passes over the UVU campus that morning, and it is a genuinely relevant aircraft. A one-character transcription error between the two tails would produce exactly the pattern seen here.
This does not prove Cullen made that error, and he may have a basis for the flag that has not been published. But the burden now sits on the claim: absent a sourced ADS-B track putting this specific 1973 Arrow near Utah on 10 September 2025, it should not be presented as an aircraft of interest.
What this aircraft would cost to buy new today
- Type (FAA-confirmed): Piper PA-28R-200 (Cherokee Arrow), built 1973, serial 28R-7335308
- Registered owner: Private individual (Winter Park FL)
- Still built today? No — Arrow production ended
- Priced against: Piper Archer LX
- Cost to buy new today: ~$0.5 million
A 1973 four-seat single-engine piston trainer. New Piper Archer LX runs roughly $0.4-0.5M — the cheapest aircraft in this entire investigation by a factor of more than one hundred.
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
The recovery sweep found no flight data for this tail in any source. Three independent ADS-B archives hold zero days for it, and its FlightRadar24 page loads but prints "Sorry, but we could not find data for specified flight". The reading that fits the aircraft is about equipment, not about erasure: N55906 is a 1973 four-seat piston single (Mode S A72351), and a light single of that vintage either is not fitted with ADS-B Out or is not being received by the volunteer network. Nothing can be removed from an archive that never recorded it.
| Source | What it holds for N55906 |
|---|---|
adsb.lol globe_history | nothing — 0 days |
| globe.airplanes.live | nothing — 0 days |
| ADS-B Exchange monthly sample | nothing — 0 days |
| FlightRadar24 page | HTTP 200 in a browser on 24 August 2026, identity block intact — P28R · Mode S A72351 · private owner. 0 history rows; the page prints the no-data message. |
| Internet Archive | 1 page snapshot held — a FlightAware page captured 4 March 2010; 0 flight rows recovered off it. |
Removed from: nothing. No tracking site was found to have removed this aircraft's page. Our scripted probe recorded HTTP 403 from FlightRadar24, RadarBox and Planespotters, and those 403s are robot blocks rather than removals — five unrelated control aircraft got the identical 403 from the identical script, and all of them load normally in a browser. See What A 403 Actually Means.
This is the tail named in a claim by citizen investigator John Cullen, so it is worth being precise about what the sweep does and does not say. It does not show that anything was taken down, and it cannot show where the aircraft was on any given day. The one observation it supports is a narrow and sourceable one: a Piper Cherokee Arrow II is a four-seat piston single, not a survey or ISR platform, and an ADS-B blank in the volunteer archives is the ordinary condition for that class of aircraft. Whether the flag rests on some basis not published here is not something this sweep can settle.
Raw files: site/docs/Planes/N55906/data/recovered/ — the source is in every filename, and each
file has a .meta.json sidecar recording source, URL, HTTP status, bytes and date.
Fleet-wide: Flight Data Recovery · Per-Aircraft Recovery Status
Interesting In This Area
- Cullen names it beside N1098L, calling one elephant and one gorilla.
- Public reporting is thin, thinner than the ISR tails around it.
- Do not confuse it with N59906, the survey aircraft.
- The section index keeps it as a lead, not a finding.
Interesting In Other Areas
- John Cullen is the investigator behind the flag.
- US Army HADES is the program the comparison tail flies under.
- The drones index tracks the launched-platform version of the same question.
- N1098L over UVU is the claim this tail is measured against.
Other Pages In This Section
A Citation XLS that flew a short Scottsdale, Provo and Santa Barbara out-and-back on the morning of September 10, flagged on air by Candace Owens. The reported owner is described as a donor aviation entity; nothing beyond the route is established.
Read thisThe working memo for the aircraft angle — ISR passes, the Egyptian fleet, shadowing counts, SAM movements and transponder gaps, each with the record that would settle it. Start here if you want the questions rather than the tails.
Read thisThe fifth tail in the armada researchers count through Provo, and the one with the least written about it. Its weight comes entirely from the fleet pattern, not from any single documented event.
Read thisTwo more foreign tails flagged when the Egypt story grew from two jets to five. Route detail is thin; they appear in the source notes grouped simply as more planes for disclosure.
Read thisElsewhere In The Investigation
The open-source investigator who put aircraft at the centre of this case — ADS-B tracks, altitude and speed profiles, departure fields. The page also documents where his claims cut against him.
Read this
US Army HADES (Drone Launching Planes)
HADES is a real, publicly contracted Army ISR program built on the same Global 6500 airframe as N1098L. Defense-trade reporting separately describes Army interest in launching drones from that airframe.
Read thisThe routing memo for every drone thread — military ISR, event B-roll, and weaponized hypotheses, sorted by what is documented and what is only claimed. Read it before judging any single sighting.
Read this
Public ADS-B puts an Army HADES jet in extremely low, slow passes near UVU before and after 12:23 PM. The master file's summary of it runs to four words: it was ours.
Read thisSources
- Public statements by John Cullen (@I_am_JohnCullen) flagging the tail number alongside N1098L ("the gorilla in the room").
- FAA aircraft registration records for the tail number (to be pulled).
- Public ADS-B flight-tracking history for tail N55906 (FlightRadar24, ADS-B Exchange).
Laws (Charlie Kirk)
- Records establishing whether N55906 is a distinct aircraft, its type, route, owner, and operator are exactly the kind of facts the Charlie Kirk Investigation Laws are designed to force into the open — powerful truths that are not public yet.
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 (N55906 Cullen Flight) 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
- The planes index names the exact records that would settle each aircraft question.
- Russell Brand says sources told him foreign-involvement inquiry lines were closed six days after.
- Search interest from Israeli IP ranges reportedly spiked before the events it would follow.
Related Areas
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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 — N55906 — 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 — N55906 — volunteer-fed, unfiltered tracker that does not honor LADD, so it often shows blocked aircraft and tracks the filtered sites leave out.