N560TW Scottsdale Jet
A Cessna Citation XLS twin-jet registered N560TW is reported to have flown a short out-and-back route through Provo, Utah on the morning of September 10, 2025, the day Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University. Commentator Candace Owens publicly flagged the flight on her program as one she was "now very interested in." No wrongdoing has been established, and the flight is presented here as a publicly reported lead, not a conclusion.
Aircraft identification
- Tail number: N560TW
- Type: Cessna Citation XLS (twin-engine business jet)
- Reported registered owner: T.W. Lewis Aviation LLC, which independent commentators say is tied to the T.W. Lewis Foundation — a conservative donor entity that has publicly listed Turning Point USA among its partners. This ownership link is drawn from public registration and commentary, not from any official case record.
The ownership and donor links described here are reported allegations circulated by Candace Owens and other commentators. There is no evidence in the public record that the aircraft's owner, operator, or any associated person had any involvement in the assassination. Naming the flight is not an accusation against any individual.
Flight history relevant to the case
Candace Owens described the route on her live program. As publicly summarized by Owens and the researchers amplifying her:
- Departed Scottsdale, Arizona on the morning of September 10, 2025.
- Landed at Provo (PVU) at ~10:06 a.m. MDT. Some posts instead cite a ~10:26 a.m. arrival; the exact minute differs between accounts, but both place the touchdown in the mid-morning window before the shooting.
- Immediately turned around and departed for Santa Barbara, California (reported departure ~11:37 a.m.) — an onward leg that, per some X timelines, left Provo before the shooting later that afternoon.
- Returned to Scottsdale by ~12:44 p.m.
The interest in the flight stems from its timing and shape — a quick land-and-turn at Provo on the morning of the event, then a leg to Santa Barbara and back. Provo was the same airport that drew a cluster of private arrivals scrutinized by OSINT investigators that morning. A separate Santa Barbara connection runs through tail N872RA, another aircraft researchers logged in the Provo arrival timeline that departed Santa Barbara the same day.
Beyond Owens's interest, N560TW also appears in the broader catalogs of "anomalous aircraft near the UVU/Utah corridor" that X/OSINT researchers assembled from public ADS-B data in the September 10 window — the same researcher-compiled lists that group it with tails such as N40JD, N872RA, and N102DZ for manifest review. Per those researchers, inclusion on the list reflects attention to timing and routing drawn from public flight-tracking data, not any established connection to the assassination.
Theories about the aircraft's role
Researchers covering N560TW have floated several interpretations, framed here as open theories rather than conclusions:
- Donor-pressure angle — Owens and others have noted that the reported owner entity is linked to a major TPUSA donor, and have referenced post-assassination reporting that Kirk faced donor pressure over his shifting public positions on Israel and his refusal to criticize Tucker Carlson. Owens has raised the question of whether the flight is connected to that tension. These donor-relationship and pressure claims are reported by commentators and unproven; they are recorded only to explain why the flight drew attention.
- Personnel transport / planning — Independent investigators building arrival timelines around Provo have flagged the flight as potentially relevant to pre-event movements, personnel transport, or planning on the morning of September 10. Per those X timelines, the morning arrival and the pre-shooting onward leg to Santa Barbara are what drew the attention. This too is a publicly reported lead, not an established fact.
- Innocent coincidence — A short business out-and-back by a donor-affiliated aircraft may have no connection to the events at UVU. No manifest, passenger list, or stated purpose has been made public to rule this in or out.
Owens herself framed the flight as a question, not an answer, telling viewers "somebody saw something" and asking the public for tips rather than naming a culprit.
Open questions
- Who was aboard N560TW on each leg of the September 10 Scottsdale–Provo–Santa Barbara route?
- What was the stated business purpose of the Provo land-and-turn and the Santa Barbara stop?
- Who is the beneficial owner of the aircraft, as distinct from the registered LLC?
- Is there any documentary basis for the donor-pressure narrative beyond commentary?
- Does the Santa Barbara leg connect in any way to tail N872RA, which also touched Santa Barbara and Provo that day?
What this aircraft would cost to buy new today
- Type (FAA-confirmed): Cessna 560XL (Citation XLS), built 2005, serial 560-5585
- Registered owner: T W LEWIS-AVIATION LLC (Scottsdale AZ)
- Still built today? No — XLS succeeded by XLS Gen2
- Priced against: Cessna Citation XLS Gen2
- Cost to buy new today: ~$15.5 million
Citation XLS Gen2 is the direct in-production successor at ~$15.5M new.
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
N560TW is still served by every source that carries it, and it is one of the two aircraft here whose FlightRadar24 page had actually flown recently enough to render rows on the free tier. Nine flight rows were recovered off archived pages, and the ADS-B Exchange monthly samples reach back to January 2022 — the deepest reach of any free archive for this tail.
| Source | What it holds for N560TW |
|---|---|
adsb.lol globe_history | 9 days of track, 1 September 2025 to 9 October 2025 |
| globe.airplanes.live | 27 days of track, 1 September 2025 to 5 June 2026 |
| ADS-B Exchange monthly sample | 23 days, 1 January 2022 to 1 August 2026 |
| FlightRadar24 page | HTTP 200 in a browser on 24 August 2026; 28 history rows on the free seven-day tier; older history paywalled |
| Internet Archive | 2 page snapshots held; 9 flight rows recovered off them |
No tracking site was found to have removed this aircraft's page. Our scripts recorded HTTP 403 from FlightRadar24, RadarBox and Planespotters, but the same script recorded the identical 403 for five unrelated control aircraft, so those are robot blocks and establish nothing about this tail: What A 403 Actually Means. FlightAware and ADS-B Exchange serve scripts normally and returned HTTP 200 for N560TW.
Where a day is absent from an archive, that means the volunteer receiver network heard nothing on that day. It does not mean the aircraft did not fly, and it does not mean a transponder was off. Both free daily archives begin in 2023, so no 2022 date is testable at all — the 2022 monthly samples above are the only window into that year, and they are monthly snapshots, not a record of every flight.
Raw payloads are saved at site/docs/Planes/N560TW/data/recovered/, with the source named in every
filename and a .meta.json sidecar per file recording the source, URL, HTTP status, byte count and
date.
Method and fleet-wide results: Flight Data Recovery · Per-Aircraft Recovery Status
Interesting In This Area
- Scottsdale to Provo to Santa Barbara, out and back, on the morning itself.
- N872RA shares the Santa Barbara end of that route.
- The reported owner is a donor aviation entity, unlike N582MM.
- N40JD is another Scottsdale departure logged into Provo that day.
Interesting In Other Areas
- Candace Owens flagged the flight on air and named it directly.
- Paul Singer and conservative funding covers the donor structure around the organisation.
- Donor pressure on bookings is the AmFest version of the same pressure.
- Donor pressure on air is what he said about it himself.
Other Pages In This Section
A tail described in commentary as one TPUSA insiders used, named in the draft disclosure laws over a reported October 2025 Fort Huachuca to Kalispell leg. Standalone sourcing is thin, and naming an aircraft accuses nobody.
Read thisOne of three callsign readings reported for the same government VIP airframe around the Fort Huachuca window. The page exists so the identifier stays searchable and the uncertainty is stated rather than smoothed over.
Read this
An Egyptian-registered aircraft that flight-trackers pulled into the case. The page separates what the ADS-B record actually shows from what the threads made of it.
Read this
Elsewhere In The Investigation
She called Charlie her best friend and brother, then ran the largest independent probe of his death. She also published the texts, the tipline and the SUV photographs the rest of the case now argues over.
Read this
Paul Singer and Conservative Funding Networks
Public reporting on a major donor's long funding of pro-Israel conservative institutions, including networks tied to an organizer of the July 31 session. The page documents financial and political context and alleges no knowledge of, or role in, violence.
Read thisThe lineup-control slice of the donor fight: reported texts about losing a major donor for refusing to cancel Tucker Carlson, and the windows where pressure was allegedly applied. Every named donor's denial is on the page. Lawful leverage is not assassination.
Read thisPrivate WhatsApp lines about losing a $2M donor have a public cousin — on-air monologues about not being bought. When the private and public lanes rhyme, the pressure narrative gains weight, and still names no shooter.
Read thisSources
- Candace Owens program commentary (live broadcast), as summarized and screenshotted by independent investigators.
- Public ADS-B flight-tracking history for tail N560TW.
- FAA registration records for the tail number (reported owner: T.W. Lewis Aviation LLC).
- Post-assassination reporting referenced by commentators regarding donor pressure on Kirk over Israel positions.
Sourcing on the ownership and donor-pressure narrative is commentary-based and unverified by any official record; it is reported here with attribution rather than as fact.
Laws (Charlie Kirk)
- The passenger manifest for N560TW's September 10 flights from Scottsdale to Provo and on to Santa Barbara, and the identity of its beneficial owner, are exactly the kind of records the Charlie Kirk Investigation Laws could force into the open — truths that are not public today.
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 (N560TW Scottsdale Jet) 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
- Egyptian and French officials reportedly met Utah's governor in closed-door Gold Room sessions.
- Manifests, cargo logs, and visas remain undisclosed — the foreign flight records stay unresolvable.
- Tests that would have detected an explosive were reportedly skipped entirely.
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 — N560TW — 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 — N560TW — volunteer-fed, unfiltered tracker that does not honor LADD, so it often shows blocked aircraft and tracks the filtered sites leave out.
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