N79SC Erika's Probable Plane
N79SC is a Learjet 60 — the same type as N582MM, Charlie Kirk's speaking-event plane. Added 17 September 2026, when the recovered flight archives were matched against the few dated events Erika Kirk did on her own. On those days N79SC was at the airport, and N582MM was somewhere else.
Status: Erika Kirk — Alive. Nothing on this page is a finding of wrongdoing by her or by anyone.
On 21–22 March 2025 Erika Kirk spoke at a women's conference in San Clemente, California, without Charlie. N79SC flew Scottsdale → Santa Ana and back. On the same days N582MM was in Duluth, Minnesota.
N79SC was also in Washington, DC on 14 October 2025 and New York on 8 December 2025, both days Erika Kirk had events there.
The caveat, at the same size. We could find only a few dated events of Erika's own before September 2025, so this rests on 3–4 dates. It is a strong lead, not an established fact. And a flight record never places a person aboard — this shows which plane was at the airport on her days, not that she was on it.
The record at a glance
| Type | Learjet 60 (LJ60) |
| ICAO hex | aab73f |
| Operator in the ADS-B aircraft database | D E Magarin Asset Management LLC |
| Days tied to Erika Kirk's own events | 3–4 — San Clemente (21–22 Mar 2025), Washington DC (14 Oct 2025), New York (8 Dec 2025) |
| Went private | 2026 — see when each aircraft went private |
| FlightAware | Hides its flights (on FlightAware's block list, checked 17 Sep 2026) |
| Cost to buy this capability new today | ~$18.4 million — same type as N582MM, see Aircraft Costs |
Naming an operator is not naming a wrongdoer. Nothing here asserts anything improper by any company or person associated with this aircraft.
His plane and her plane
| Charlie's plane | Erika's probable plane | |
|---|---|---|
| Aircraft | N582MM, Learjet 60 | N79SC, Learjet 60 |
| Evidence | At the airport for about 50 of his dated speaking events, 2023 to Sep 2025 | At the airport on 3–4 of her own event days |
| 21–22 March 2025 | Duluth, Minnesota | Scottsdale → Santa Ana → Scottsdale, for San Clemente |
| On the FAA privacy list | Never — FlightAware hides it through its own block list | Went private in 2026 |
The Gulfstream V N102DZ only shows up with the Kirks from September 2025. The full comparison is on which planes Charlie flew and which Erika flew.
What the geographic sweep recorded
The geographic sweep asks which aircraft were on the ground within 50 miles of every sourced Kirk or TPUSA event, without starting from a tail number. N79SC came out of it on its own:
- On the ground near a sourced event on 26 event-days, in 13 cities across 8 states (Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Washington).
- 17 of those hits are Phoenix, which looks like its home base. A Phoenix plane near Phoenix events is expected and proves little.
- It was never on the ground near any of the control cities swept on the same days.
- The dates include 11 September 2025 near Orem, Utah — the day after the assassination — and 21 September 2025 at Glendale, Arizona, the day of the stadium memorial.
Those circles include Charlie's events as well as Erika's, so this list is not by itself evidence of
whose plane it is. The dated events of Erika's own are. Source:
site/docs/Planes/following/apis/public_open_source/data/analysis/recurrence_hardtest.csv and
geo_recurrence_all_aircraft.csv.
Counterpoints
- 3–4 dates is a small base. A charter or shared aircraft could line up with a few dates by chance. More of Erika Kirk's own dated events are needed to test it.
- Being at the airport is not being aboard. No ADS-B record carries a passenger list.
- Going private is ordinary. Owners lawfully ask the FAA and the tracking sites to hide their aircraft. It shows nothing about who asked, or why.
Open questions
- Do more dated events of Erika Kirk's own, especially before September 2025, put N79SC at the airport too — or somewhere else?
- Was N79SC at the airport for the June 2025 Young Women's Leadership Summit, the one well-dated joint event before 10 September?
- When exactly in 2026 did N79SC go private?
Nothing on this page constitutes a finding of wrongdoing, criminal conduct, ethical violation, or participation in any crime by Erika Kirk, by Turning Point USA, by the operator of this aircraft, or by any other living person or organisation. A flight record shows where an aircraft was, never who was aboard. All persons named are presumed innocent.