N872RA Provo Arrival
A Hawker Beechcraft business jet (reported 7-seat) registered N872RA 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. Its value to the investigation is not a standalone smoking gun — sourcing on this specific tail is thin — but as part of the Provo arrival cluster, and because it shares a Santa Barbara origin with two other items researchers have flagged: the N560TW jet, and the disputed "tarmac hug" timeline involving a plane said to have landed from Santa Barbara.
Aircraft identification
- Tail number: N872RA
- Type: Hawker Beechcraft business jet (reported 7 seats)
- Registry / operator / owner: Not yet publicly identified in the investigation notes
- Role on the list: A private aircraft logged arriving at Provo (PVU) on September 10, 2025
Flight history relevant to the case
As reproduced from flight-record screenshots circulated by independent investigators:
- September 10, 2025, ~2:19 p.m. MT — Departed Santa Barbara, California.
- September 10, 2025, ~4:36 p.m. MT — Arrived Provo (PVU).
This is a late-afternoon arrival, hours after the shooting. No public reporting ties N872RA, its crew, or its passengers to the event. It is logged alongside the other day-of arrivals — N40JD (Scottsdale → Provo, ~2:29 p.m.), N102DZ (Charlie Kirk's plane, into Provo ~3:31 p.m.), and N560TW — so its manifest can be reviewed in context.
The Santa Barbara connection
Two separate threads in the investigation single out a Santa Barbara origin on September 10, which is why N872RA is flagged rather than treated as routine traffic:
- Shared route with N560TW. The N560TW Cessna Citation — owned by T.W. Lewis Aviation LLC, tied to a major TPUSA donor — is reported by Candace Owens to have flown Scottsdale → Provo (land 10:06 a.m.) → Santa Barbara (depart ~11:37 a.m.) → Scottsdale (~12:44 p.m.) that morning. Researchers ask whether the Santa Barbara leg of N560TW and the later Santa Barbara departure of N872RA are connected, or coincidental.
- The contested "tarmac hug" timeline. According to Candace Owens's reporting, TPUSA and Erika Kirk stated she met TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet on the Provo runway when his plane landed from Santa Barbara — a plane Owens says did not land in Provo until about 4:40 p.m. That arrival time and Santa Barbara origin closely match the N872RA record above (Santa Barbara → Provo, ~4:36 p.m.). The investigation notes do not explicitly confirm N872RA is the Kolvet aircraft; the overlap in origin and arrival time is noted as a possible identification to verify, not an established one.
Citizen tracking and X OSINT
N872RA is one of several arrival flights flagged in citizen tracking of activity around the assassination timeframe, per the open-source intelligence (OSINT) circulating on X.
- Provo airport movements on X. The tail surfaced alongside other day-of Provo airport movements compiled and shared by independent trackers on X, not in any official briefing.
- Part of the Provo arrival cluster. Per X OSINT, N872RA is part of the Provo arrival cluster noted in OSINT and X posts — a set of private aircraft logged into PVU on September 10, 2025 that citizen researchers grouped together for review.
- Arrival flagged in X OSINT. The arrival into Provo itself is flagged in X OSINT around the event, which is why this otherwise thin tail entry was retained.
- Private operators. The flight is attributed to private operators; no commercial or government carrier is associated with the record.
These points are OSINT observations from X and citizen tracking, noted for context only. Nothing here asserts wrongdoing by any operator, crew, or passenger.
Theories about the aircraft's role
These are open, unproven interpretations circulated by independent researchers — not conclusions, and not statements of fact about any person:
- Routine arrival, no connection. The simplest reading: a private charter that happened to land at Provo that afternoon with no tie to the case. Nothing in public reporting contradicts this.
- The "tarmac hug" aircraft. That N872RA may be the Santa Barbara plane referenced in the disputed Kolvet/Erika Kirk runway-meeting timeline. If so, its manifest and exact arrival time bear on the broader question Owens raised about when Erika Kirk reached the hospital. This is a possible identification to confirm, not a finding.
- Part of a Santa Barbara movement. That the two flagged Santa Barbara legs on September 10 (N560TW's and N872RA's) reflect coordinated movement of people through that airport. No evidence currently links the two flights beyond the shared airport.
Open questions
- Who is the registered owner and operator of N872RA?
- Who was aboard N872RA on the September 10 arrival into Provo?
- Is N872RA the Santa Barbara aircraft referenced in the Kolvet / Erika Kirk "tarmac hug" timeline, or a different plane?
- Is there any connection between this Santa Barbara departure and the Santa Barbara leg flown by N560TW that morning?
Aircraft identification, confirmed
The FAA Civil Aviation Registry resolves what earlier commentary left open. N872RA is a Hawker Beechcraft 400A (the Beechjet 400A / Hawker 400XP family), built 2008, serial RK-563, 10 seats in the type record, registered to A&E Hawker LP of Santa Ana, California. Descriptions of it as an unspecified "Hawker Beechcraft business jet with a reported 7 seats" can be replaced with the specific type.
What this aircraft would cost to buy new today
- Type (FAA-confirmed): Hawker Beechcraft 400A (Beechjet 400A), built 2008, serial RK-563
- Registered owner: A&E HAWKER LP (Santa Ana CA)
- Still built today? No — 400A/400XP out of production
- Priced against: Cessna Citation M2 Gen2
- Cost to buy new today: ~$5.7 million
Beechjet 400A out of production. The Citation M2 Gen2 (~$5.65M) is the closest new entry-level jet; a closer cabin match, the CJ3 Gen2, runs ~$10.99M.
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
This aircraft is a clean illustration that a page archive and a sensor archive are two completely separate things. The Internet Archive holds no snapshot of any N872RA tracking page at all — its crawler simply never visited one — and yet the flight record itself is intact: 48 days of raw track on airplanes.live and 24 monthly samples reaching back to April 2022. Nothing was lost; nothing was ever archived on the page side to lose. In a browser today the FlightRadar24 page loads normally and shows 294 history rows in seven days — under operator Regency Air, this airframe flies constantly.
| Source | What it holds for N872RA |
|---|---|
adsb.lol globe_history | 12 days, 1 Sep 2025 – 10 Oct 2025 |
| globe.airplanes.live | 48 days, 1 Sep 2025 – 5 Jun 2026 |
| ADS-B Exchange monthly sample | 24 days, 1 Apr 2022 – 1 Aug 2026 |
| FlightRadar24 page | HTTP 200 in a browser on 24 Aug 2026; 294 history rows on the free seven-day tier; older history paywalled |
| Internet Archive | 0 page snapshots held; 0 flight rows recovered off them |
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/N872RA/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
- Its Santa Barbara origin is shared with N560TW and a disputed tarmac account.
- N40JD is the other thin Provo arrival on the same list.
- The September 10 timeline is where the cluster becomes checkable.
- Thin tails are catalogued anyway, exactly as Pilatus PC-12 is.
Interesting In Other Areas
- Provo Municipal is the field every one of these arrivals used.
- Erika Kirk features in the disputed tarmac timeline researchers cite.
- The day-of timeline sets these arrivals against the shooting.
- Trusted investigators is the filter to apply before repeating a claim.
Other Pages In This Section
A business jet left Provo about an hour after the shooting, lost its ADS-B signal mid-flight, then reappeared and returned. The owner, the FAA and the FBI director all say the gap was routine and the aircraft is not part of the investigation.
Read thisA Special Air Mission callsign for tail 99-0404, reported leaving Fort Huachuca at 0:49 on September 9. Until a flight log is produced it stays an open identifier rather than a manifest.
Read thisA Falcon 7X counted in the armada that is rarely discussed on its own. The page is candid that its significance is membership in a pattern, and gives the maintenance-contract counterpoint room.
Read this
One base links the government jet that flew west before September 10 and the aircraft that carried the casket the day after. The page also separates the two tail numbers people keep confusing, 99-0404 and 99-0004.
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 thisCharlie Kirk's widow, her TPUSA leadership role after September 2025, and her attendance at the July 2026 preliminary-hearing sessions.
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 thisSources
- Flight-record screenshots of Provo (PVU) arrivals circulated by independent investigators.
- Candace Owens livestream/podcast coverage of the September 10 flight timeline and the "tarmac hug" dispute (Frank Turek hospital-timeline interview referenced therein).
- Public ADS-B flight-tracking history for tail N872RA.
- FAA registration records for the tail number.
Laws (Charlie Kirk)
- The passenger manifest and operator records for N872RA, its exact Provo arrival time, and any link to the Santa Barbara leg of N560TW or the Kolvet runway-meeting account, are things that the Charlie Kirk Investigation Laws may result in powerful truths coming out that aren't out 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 (N872RA 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
- The low-pass spy plane launched that morning from an Army airfield in Texas.
- More than a dozen accounts have Kirk predicting his own killing beforehand.
- Circulating audio includes "Get that off of him" — see the SUV 911 tape.
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 — N872RA — 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 — N872RA — volunteer-fed, unfiltered tracker that does not honor LADD, so it often shows blocked aircraft and tracks the filtered sites leave out.