X posts on flight data reported erased
This page is the public log of what X.com and Twitter posts say about flight-tracking data being erased, blocked, wiped, or gone after the Charlie Kirk assassination. It is not a finding that any tracker deleted a record, that any living person requested a deletion, or that any aircraft was tasked. Status of every living person named below: Alive. They are quoted as speakers, not as perpetrators.
The tested version of the single biggest claim on this page — that N102DZ was taken off FlightRadar24 — already lives on Erika Flight Logs Erased and What A 403 Actually Means. The primary data this investigation actually pulled back lives on Flight Data Recovery. The overlap-count debate, a different claim, lives on X Discussions of the Following Planes. This page is the X-side of the erasure conversation: which system, which plane, which person, what they thought they were looking at.
The topic list and the query rule (full post text; the word "summarized" never goes in a Grok search) are on X search topics — flight data reported erased. Twenty topics, one query each, 26 August 2026.
:::caution Legal Disclaimer Nothing on this page is a finding of wrongdoing by Erika Kirk, Kash Patel, Derek Maxfield, Baron Coleman, or any other living person. Owner-requested privacy blocks and seven-day free-tier windows are ordinary features of commercial flight trackers. Allegations that someone "deleted" a record are unverified claims circulating on X, not court findings. :::
The pattern, in one screen
X does not talk about "the planes" as one erasure. It talks about four different "gone" claims, and they are not interchangeable.
| What X is actually saying | Tracker named | Tail | Who X names | What they were trying to see | Standing of the claim on this site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 history of the Kirk-family Gulfstream vanished in May 2026 | FlightRadar24 (almost every post) | N102DZ | Erika Kirk, "someone(s)", TPUSA | Her 2025 itinerary vs the 73-overlap sheet; post-assassination legs (Camarillo, Miami OPF) | The page-takedown claim is refuted. Empty table is FR24's seven-day free tier. ADS-B archives still hold the tracks, including May 2026. See Erika Flight Logs Erased |
| Egyptian jets went dark / transponder off | ADS-B Exchange (Owens's source); FlightRadar24 cited as still playing back | SU-BTT, SU-BND | nobody named as a deleter | The 73-overlap pattern; Israel legs; Provo on 10 September | Not an erasure-from-tracker claim. Keyword search for these tails + erased/deleted/removed from FR24/FlightAware/RadarBox returned zero posts. Trackers treat the data as still there |
| A private jet left Provo after the shot and dropped off public maps | FlightAware block + ADS-B gap | N888KG | the owner, via privacy request | Whether someone fled the scene | Owner-privacy block plus a mid-flight ADS-B gap. FAA, Kash Patel, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the transponder was not turned off. Different claim from N102DZ |
| The FBI Gulfstream was pulled off FlightAware after press coverage of personal travel | FlightAware | N708JH | Kash Patel / FBI as owner-operator | Patel's own movements, not Kirk's | Press-reported owner/operator block, November 2025. About personal-travel coverage, not Charlie Kirk case records. ADS-B Exchange still showed it |
Read the second row twice. The Egyptian-registered SU- tails are the centre of the following-planes allegation, and they are not the centre of the erasure allegation. People on X argue about those aircraft constantly — Provo, Sharm el-Sheikh, transponders, 73 overlaps — and they argue as if the flight data is still on the tracker. @ProjectConstitu on 16 August 2026 posted "the actual FlightRadar24 playback of SU-BTT landing in Cairo" and closed with "the flight data doesn't lie." A search for SU-BTT, SU-BND, SU-BTU, SU-BTV, SU-BGM, T7-ELL or EJM36 plus erased/deleted/removed from a named tracker returned no posts.
The erasure conversation on X is about the Kirk-family tail, N102DZ. Almost every post is one account, then Stew Peters putting that account on a show.
Meta: who is actually posting this
One originator. One amplifier with reach. A handful of quote-tweets. That is the shape.
@hurtfeelingzday (display name HURT FEELINGS DAY) is the person who put "N102DZ / FlightRadar24 / May 2026 / I have the screenshots" into circulation. The earliest posts these queries returned are 20 June 2026. The wording shifts over six weeks — first "flightradar wiped", then "Erika Kirk deleted", then "someone(s) in May 2026" — but the payload is the same: 2025 history of N102DZ gone from the FlightRadar24 app, screenshots taken from late September 2025 through January 2026, copies sent to Stew Peters Network.
@realstewpeters is the amplifier. Two posts carried the claim to six figures of views:
- 1 July 2026 — 11,364 likes, 279,454 views. "Charlie Kirk's Gulfstream jet, inherited by Erika Frantzve, has disappeared from flight radar trackers along with all previously logged flight data. Innocent people don't behave like this."
- 3 July 2026 — 5,601 likes, 80,015 views. "all the flight logs for Charlie Kirk's private jet have been REMOVED from Flight Radar 24." He contrasts that with SAM flights, which he says he can still pull.
The viral hurtfeelingzday post of 21 July 2026 — 9,467 likes, 211,658 views — is the one already embedded on Erika Flight Logs Erased. It pairs Erika Kirk's Bari Weiss clip ("if you want to go through my flight log, go right ahead") with a screen recording of 2025 FlightRadar24 rows. That is the post that made the invitation and the alleged wipe one sentence.
Candace Owens did not post the erasure claim. A from:RealCandaceO search for erased/deleted/wiped/removed plus flight/transponder/logs/flightradar returned zero. Owens's plane posts are the overlap tallies and the transponder-on-the-tarmac timings, collected on X Discussions and Candace Owens Broadcasts. She used ADS-B Exchange as the source for those timings, which is the opposite of saying the data was gone.
Which tracker X names
| Tracker | How often X names it for an erasure | What the posts actually describe |
|---|---|---|
| FlightRadar24 | Dominant. N102DZ claim lives here | "No flights found" in the app; 2025 history "wiped" April–May 2026; Sweden-based company named as a contrast ("Air Force 2's data is still up. Hegseth's jet 99-0404 is still up. But not Erika's plane." — hurtfeelingzday, 20 July 2026) |
| FlightAware | N888KG block; N708JH block; N1098L still there | Owner/operator "not available for public tracking" pages, not a vanished history table |
| ADS-B Exchange | Named as the place the data still is | Baron Coleman: "All of the information from this plane and all other planes used by TPUSA and Paradise Charters are readily available at adsbexchange." Owens's Egyptian transponder times came from here. The Intercept still used it for N708JH after FlightAware blocked |
| "Radar 24" | One post (@davis8273shari, 4 July 2026) | Almost certainly FlightRadar24, misnamed |
| adsb.lol / airplanes.live / OpenSky | Not in the X erasure conversation | These are this investigation's recovery sources, not what posters were looking at |
The X conversation has one commercial site at the centre (FlightRadar24's free app), one commercial site used for government-jet blocks (FlightAware), and one community site treated as the backup (ADS-B Exchange). That is the same three-way split this investigation used on Flight Data Recovery, arrived at from the posts rather than from the APIs.
Cluster A — N102DZ, FlightRadar24, May 2026
The claim, as the posts state it. Sometime between April and May 2026, the public FlightRadar24 history for Gulfstream V tail N102DZ — described as Charlie Kirk's jet, then Erika Kirk's — stopped showing 2025 flights. Researchers who had taken screenshots from late September 2025 through 5 January 2026 say they still have the rows. Erika Kirk later invited the public to check "my flight log." The posters say that invitation is hollow because the app now returns "No flights found."
The dates, in the originator's own posts, in order:
- 20 June 2026 — first returned posts. Screenshots Sept 2025–Jan 2026; account locked after posting the thread; unlock after @DocHolidayz75 tagged Elon Musk, xAI, Barnes Law, CBS Austin, KVUE. Wipe dated "as of May 2026" and also "some time after April 2026."
- 24 June 2026 — the "Erika Kirk deleted" wording (4,608 likes, 151,489 views), a month before Tyler Robinson's preliminary hearing. Screenshot of the app saying "No flights found."
- 1–3 July 2026 — Stew Peters puts it on air. The "innocent people don't behave like this" line is his, not the originator's.
- 3 July 2026 — screenshots tied to a claimed Miami / Opa-locka (OPF) pattern and a Netanyahu-family geography claim. That geography claim is not established here and is recorded only because it is what the poster said they were using the logs to look at.
- 13 July 2026 — the FR24 wipe bundled with unrelated TPUSA video-edit claims (Hegseth clip, Aspen audio, YouTube takedowns). Different records, one sentence.
- 20 July 2026 — window narrowed to "sometime between April & May of 2026." Contrast aircraft named: Air Force Two still up; SAM 99-0404 still up.
- 21 July 2026 — the Bari Weiss invitation clip, 211,658 views.
- 31 July 2026 — a claimed taxiway coincidence with another private aircraft (Miriam Farbstein named by the poster; living person, no wrongdoing established, recorded only as the reason the poster gave for caring about the wipe). Window shown to Stew: 4 September 2025 – 5 January 2026.
- 16–17 August 2026 — same sentences still being posted.
What they say they were tracking. Not "was the plane at UVU." The 2025 history, specifically: post-assassination legs, a 16 December 2025 Nashville appearance, Camarillo, and whether N102DZ sat on the same ramp as other private aircraft. Occupancy of any leg is a separate question. An aircraft track never establishes who was aboard. See Charlie's and Erika's aircraft.
The replies that cut against the cover-up reading, from the same thread.
On 24 June 2026 Baron Coleman replied to the "Erika deleted" post:
"All of the information from this plane and all other planes used by TPUSA and Paradise Charters are readily available at adsbexchange. Many planes fly under the LADD program, which limits data sharing to commercial sites (like the ones you are using). There's a lot wrong with this case. But this isn't one of them."
The same day @researcherdaisy said N102DZ flights were designated under LADD (the FAA's Limiting Aircraft Data Displayed program), that Elderberry Chestnut LLC holds a fractional share, and that Paradise Jets holds the charter certificate. The originator did not drop the claim; later posts say Coleman "acknowledged that the flight logs were deleted but said that they weren't relevant" and that "the same data can be retrieved from another site."
@grok on the Stew Peters thread, 3 July 2026: the absence on FlightRadar24 is "standard: private owners routinely request FAA LADD privacy blocks, which FR24 respects. It filters display for security—not deletion or cover-up." (A different Grok reply in the same cluster mixed N102DZ up with N888KG and said Kirk did not own a plane. That mix-up is recorded so it is not reused.)
What this investigation already tested, restated so this page does not quietly disagree with its sisters. Opened in a real browser on 24 August 2026, flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n102dz returns HTTP 200 with the identity block intact. So do all fifteen other case tails and four unrelated controls. The empty history table is the seven-day free tier; the unrelated control N628TS prints the identical "could not find data" message to within eight bytes. The HTTP 403 a script gets is bot protection for the entire site, including FlightRadar24's home page. The claim "the page was taken down" is refuted. A narrower claim that 2025 history was purged from the paid table and later restored is beyond that method in either direction, and this page does not assert it. The underlying ADS-B position record was not destroyed: this site holds 66 days of N102DZ traces, 35 of them inside the reported April–June 2026 wipe window. Method: What A 403 Actually Means. Per-tail counts: Per-Aircraft Status.
The one thing the recovery does not produce is an Erika Kirk itinerary. That is still the missing document. See Erika Kirk's flights.
Cluster B — the Egyptian SU- tails were not the erasure story
The following-planes claim is about SU-BTT (yellow Falcon 7X), SU-BND (blue Gulfstream), SU-BTU, SU-BTV, SU-BGM, and the flagged extras T7-ELL / EJM36. It is the largest allegation in the Planes section. It is not what X means when it says "they erased the flight data."
Zero posts came back for those tails plus erased, deleted, removed, scrubbed, blocked, or "no data" on FlightRadar24, FlightAware, ADS-B, or RadarBox.
What X does say about them, because the same queries surfaced it:
- Transponder cycling, not a deleted page. Owens's 17 November 2025 broadcast, relayed by @AdameMedia on 17 December 2025: the Egyptian jets "were turning their transponders off and going to Israel." On 10 September she timed SU-BND at Provo from ADS-B Exchange: on 9:05–10:34 a.m., off, back on 12:40–1:29 p.m. That is an on-the-air behaviour claim. It is the opposite of "the website took the history down."
- The tracker is treated as live evidence. @ProjectConstitu, 16 August 2026, posted FR24 playback of SU-BTT into Almaza / Cairo on 13 October 2025, the Sharm el-Sheikh summit day, as a receipt against people who said the tail was misread. See Israel Planes and Sharm el-Sheikh.
- Paris–Le Bourget on 4 September 2025. Same account, 12 December 2025: T7-ELL, N360BE, and SU-BTT at LBG six days before the assassination. See Paris Le Bourget.
Do not merge those threads into this one. Transponder-off is an aircraft behaviour. A privacy block is a website behaviour. A seven-day paywall is a product behaviour. The following-pattern is a pairing claim. This page is only the "a tracker dropped the record" sentence.
Cluster C — N888KG: a gap, a block, and a government denial
N888KG generated the first "the plane disappeared" wave, in the 48 hours after the shooting, before anyone was talking about N102DZ's 2025 table.
@urinalwallpoet, 11 September 2025 — 4,019 likes, 752,920 views: "A private plane with tail number N888KG left Utah after the shooting. landed in Wendover, never filed, no transponder from there on. Desert airstrip, cameras off." Later reporting pointed the route at Page, Arizona, not Wendover. The owner, Derek Maxfield, said the outbound leg was two pilots and no passengers, radar services were cancelled by mutual agreement near a non-towered field, and the flight was pre-scheduled and unrelated. Status: Alive. Naming him is not an accusation.
@DanceTheSkys the same night posted a tracker screenshot: "This is supposed to be public info. The government is blocking the tracking of this flight." Grok-on-X replies in January 2026 describe that block as an owner privacy request on FlightAware, "a common option."
On 21 September 2025 Kash Patel wrote that after interviews with the pilot and the FAA, the transponder was not turned off. On 28 September 2025 Secretary Sean Duffy said FAA radar still captured the aircraft, the transponder never went off, and the flight matched its plan. Lead Stories recorded the jet as not part of the investigation.
Two different "gone"s got stacked on one tail: a mid-flight ADS-B gap on 10 September, and a FlightAware owner block that made the public page look empty afterwards. Neither is the N102DZ / May 2026 / 2025-history claim. This site keeps them on N888KG.
Cluster D — N708JH: the block the press independently reported
N708JH is a 2019 Gulfstream G550 registered to the United States Government, Department of Justice. It is in this investigation because of a tracking-block claim. It is not a Kirk-family or Egyptian tail.
After October 2025 coverage of FBI Director Kash Patel's use of the jet for personal travel, FlightAware's public page for N708JH started returning the owner/operator block message. @TheRickWilson, 2 November 2025 — 14,955 likes: "Yes, Kash Patel has ordered his use of the FBI jet's ADSB blocked." @willsommer the same day: "the FBI has pulled the jet Kash Patel frequently uses from flight tracking database FlightAware." The Guardian reported the on-site message: "not available for public tracking per request from the owner/operator." Kyle Seraphin said he paid to keep tracking it; The Intercept, 14 November 2025, said ADS-B Exchange still showed the aircraft.
This is the one row on this page where a named tracker, a named tail, and a named requester line up in press reporting, not only in an anonymous research account. The motive X assigned is personal-travel privacy after a news cycle, not hiding 10 September 2025. Government aircraft being off public maps is also the default for this category; see the N708JH page. It belongs here because it is a documented example of the mechanism the N102DZ posts are guessing at.
Cluster E — N1098L: the logs posters say were not deleted
N1098L, the LASAI / HADES Global 6500, is the opposite of an erasure story on X.
No post returned by these queries claimed this tail's tracker history had been taken down. The claim on X about N1098L runs the other way: its FlightAware page stayed publicly reachable through October 2025, and the low-altitude passes near Orem sit in the public ADS-B record where anyone can pull them. Andy Loue's August 2026 note states it plainly — the N1098L data "is real, publicly archived." The complaint attached to this tail is that a still-public record is being ignored, not that a tracker removed it. See ISR Operations and LASAI Fleet.
No post in these queries claimed N560TW, N40JD, N872RA, N582MM, T7-ELL, or EJM36 had its tracker history deleted. N560TW appears in Baron Coleman's 10 September reconstruction as a used log (the alleged 10:06 a.m. Provo arrival), not a missing one. The "deleted" item in that reconstruction is police dispatch audio (Signature vs Duncan FBO), which is a different record class. See Erika Sept 10 whereabouts and Egyptian Crew Hotel.
Who X says did it, and what that is worth
| Named as the actor | By whom | What they are supposed to have done | Counter on the same evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erika Kirk | hurtfeelingzday, 24 June 2026 onward | "Deleted all of her flight data jet N102DZ" | She is an occupant-claim, not the FAA registrant. LADD / owner-request is the documented path, and it can be filed by the operator without her "driving the mail truck." No public record on this site shows she filed anything. Status: Alive |
| "Someone(s)" | later hurtfeelingzday posts | Erased FR24 in May 2026 | Unidentified. Compatible with an ordinary privacy request, a paywall, or a UI change |
| TPUSA / "Turncoat666" | same account, 13 July 2026 | Bundled with YouTube and video-edit claims | Different records. A YouTube takedown is not a flight-tracker event |
| Kash Patel / FBI | Rick Wilson, Will Sommer, Guardian | FlightAware block on N708JH | Press-reported. About that government jet's personal-travel coverage, not N102DZ or the Egyptian tails |
| Aircraft owner via LADD | Baron Coleman, researcherdaisy, Grok-on-X | Filter commercial sites, leave ADS-B Exchange | This is the ordinary explanation, and it is how FlightAware describes flight blocking |
| Derek Maxfield / N888KG LLC | Grok-on-X; implied by the FlightAware block | Owner privacy request | His public statement is about the 10 September routing, not about hiding Kirk records. Status: Alive |
Never asserted here: who tasked an aircraft, who boarded one, or why a privacy request was filed. Owners lawfully request blocking. Sites reorganise URLs. Free tiers roll off.
Counterarguments that have to travel with every row
- A seven-day empty table is a paywall until a control aircraft proves otherwise. FlightRadar24 says so under the table. N628TS matched N102DZ. SU-BTT rendered history on the same day because it had flown recently. See What A 403 Actually Means.
- LADD is a real FAA program. File a block request. It is the mechanism Baron Coleman, researcherdaisy, and FlightAware's own engineering blog describe. Presence of a block is not evidence of a crime.
- ADS-B Exchange, airplanes.live, and adsb.lol do not take LADD orders the way FR24 and FlightAware do. That is why Coleman pointed at ADS-B Exchange, and why this investigation recovered N102DZ through May 2026 from archives FlightRadar24 does not control. Per-Aircraft Status.
- An aircraft track is not a passenger list. Recovering N102DZ in full still does not place Erika Kirk on a leg. The 73-overlap tally is still measured against a set of her locations nobody has published as a dated list. Erika Kirk's flights.
- Absence of a volunteer-network trace is not a deletion. Dates adsb.lol was asked about SU-BTT and held nothing are a coverage fact, not a takedown. Parked, out of coverage, or a wrong claimed date all look the same from here.
- N1098L cuts the other way: some of the most-discussed tails in this case still have public FlightAware pages, and the live argument there is that investigators are not reading a record nobody took down.
How this page was built
Twenty topics, one Grok / X query each, on 26 August 2026. Full post text — usernames, dates, URLs, quotes. The words "summarize", "summarized", and "summary" were not used in any query. A prior cluster on Following topics had prefixed every search with "Summarize and get extensive detail"; that prefix is retired because it was throwing away the posts. The working list is X-Flight-Data-Erasure-Topics. Duplicate restatements are grouped. Engagement numbers are what the query returned at capture.
Queries that returned nothing are reported as nothing. They are the reason the Egyptian tails sit in a different cluster from N102DZ.
Where this page fits
This is the X-conversation page for the erasure claim, written so it cannot be mistaken for Erika Flight Logs Erased (the N102DZ invitation, tested) or for Flight Data Recovery (what this investigation actually pulled). The Egyptian following-pattern, which X did not describe as a tracker deletion, stays on Following Charlie or Erika and the location-by-location log. The four-pass method for getting the data, including the commercial APIs this investigation does not yet hold, is on Getting the data. Preservation of records that can roll off a free tier is one of the things the Fix Laws are for; the digital-evidence half is Digital Evidence.