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Cairo (HECA) — the home field, November 2022 to October 2025

Every single leg in this directory begins at Cairo and ends at Cairo. Not one of the eight US location pages records an aircraft that arrived from anywhere else at the start of a rotation, or went anywhere else at the end of one. Provo, Lincoln, Omaha, Wichita, Wilmington, St. Louis, Minot and Detroit are all waypoints on a loop whose two endpoints are the same field.

That makes Cairo the only location in the record that is not in dispute. Nobody argues about whether these aircraft are based in Egypt. What is argued about is what the Cairo origin implies — and that argument, made in public by @BasedSamParker on 1 November 2025, is the reason this page exists.

None of it establishes tasking. No public record establishes who directed any of these aircraft, in either direction. This page records a routing fact, and then records what people built on top of it.

The airport​

NameCairo International Airport
IdentifiersHECA (ICAO) / CAI (IATA)
City / CountryCairo, Arab Republic of Egypt
ClassMajor international hub — Egypt's principal airport, and the base of the government VIP fleet
Role in this recordOrigin and terminus of every rotation. Not an overlap location: no claim places Charlie Kirk, Erika Kirk, or a TPUSA event in Egypt at any point.

Why a home field gets its own page​

Because the counts do not distinguish between "the aircraft was somewhere" and "the aircraft came from somewhere." A tally that lists a Cairo departure and a Cairo arrival for each rotation would inflate every rotation by two rows without adding a single overlap. Cairo is on this page precisely so it stays off the overlap tables.

It also matters for the sceptics' case. The single most repeated audit finding against the 73-overlap spreadsheet is that a large share of the listed locations put the aircraft on the wrong continent — and the continent they were actually on was Africa, sitting at Cairo. KanekoaTheGreat puts that at 60 percent of rows; @bayonerd09 makes the same check tail by tail and says free-plan FlightRadar shows SU-BTU and SU-BTV parked in Cairo on several of the dates the armada thread places them at Provo. When an audit says "wrong continent," Cairo is the continent it means. The full exchange is on the X discussions page.

The route template, and where Cairo sits in it​

Across three years and five tail numbers, the routing barely varies:

Cairo → Paris-Le Bourget → a US entry field → a 15–20 minute repositioning hop → sit five to eight days → Wilmington → Cairo.

  • Paris-Le Bourget is the standing intermediate stop on the Falcon legs. The 4 September 2025 SU-BTT arrival that sits at the centre of the whole case flew France → Minot → Provo, and the France in that sentence is Le Bourget on a Cairo-originated rotation. Le Bourget is also the world's busiest dedicated business-aviation airport and a Dassault home field — the manufacturer of the Falcon 7X is French, which is a plain reason for a Falcon operator to stop there that has nothing to do with anybody's itinerary.
  • The two Gulfstreams do not use Wilmington and do not use Paris the same way. SU-BND and SU-BGM route via Goose Bay, Newfoundland. That is a range limitation, not a different mission: a Falcon 7X can make Cairo from the mid-Atlantic coast, an older Gulfstream IV needs the North Atlantic tech stop.
  • The loop closes at Cairo every time. SU-BTT's 11 September 2025 departure from Wilmington — reported at about 11:56 UTC, with a second tracker read of roughly 13:14 UTC takeoff and 16:52 UTC landing — is the Cairo-bound closing leg of the September rotation. The two published takeoff times for the same flight are recorded here as a conflict, not reconciled.

The Inshas Airbase argument — as made, and as it should be read​

This is the substantive claim built on the Cairo origin, and it belongs on this page rather than on any US location page.

@BasedSamParker, 1 November 2025:

"CHARLIE KIRK UPDATE: The 2 mysterious Egyptian planes shadowing Charlie Kirk & TPUSA events over the last 2 years, including the day of the assassination—as reported by @RealCandaceO yesterday—consistently fly in & out of Cairo, Egypt. Here's why that might be more interesting than you realize:

Just 37 miles away from Cairo is Inshas Airbase, the home & primary training center for the El Sa'ka Forces, or "Thunderbolts"—Egypt's elite special operations unit patterned after the US Army Rangers, and trained by the US Delta Force, US Navy SEALS & British SAS.

The unit, established in 1953, focuses on airborne insertions, raids & unconventional warfare. Is this some of that foreign involvement Kash Patel doesn't want being investigated?

If you have any information on these flights, from anywhere in the world, please send your tips to Candace Owens (or me). Thank you. Everyone else, please comment & retweet this for maximum reach."

The post ran with a follow-up in-thread referencing a visualization of the aircraft shadowing events.

What the post asserts that is checkable: the aircraft fly in and out of Cairo; Inshas is roughly 37 miles from Cairo; Inshas is associated with Egypt's El Sa'ka special-operations forces; the unit dates to 1953 and trains for airborne insertion and unconventional warfare, with a history of joint training alongside US and UK special-operations units.

What the post asserts that is not checkable, and is not asserted by this site: that any of that has anything to do with these particular flights. Proximity is not a connection. The reasoning is Cairo is near Inshas, Inshas hosts commandos, therefore commandos. Written out, the gap is obvious:

  • No published record places any El Sa'ka member on any of these aircraft. Not one manifest for any leg of any of these rotations has ever been published, by anyone, at any location — which is the first item on this directory's list of what we do not know.
  • The aircraft depart from Cairo International (HECA), not from Inshas. Every logged leg in flights.csv originates at the civil hub. This is the same category of error as the Minot claim, where posts converted "Minot International Airport" into "Minot Air Force Base" — two different fields thirteen miles apart, and the difference is the whole claim.
  • Thirty-seven miles is not a relationship. Most capital cities in the world have a military installation inside forty miles of the international airport. Washington Dulles is about thirty miles from Fort Belvoir; nobody reads a Dulles departure as a Belvoir mission.
  • The Kash Patel line is rhetoric, not evidence. It is a question in the post and it stays a question here.

The honest version of the Cairo-origin finding is narrower and still worth pressing: these are Egyptian state-linked VIP aircraft operating out of the Egyptian government's home hub, and the question of who was aboard on the US rotations has never been answered by anybody. That question does not need Inshas to be a good question.

The presidential-fleet claim​

The Cairo base is also where the strongest single piece of 2026 evidence in this whole section lands: the argument that these are not chartered business jets but Egyptian presidential fleet aircraft.

  • SU-BTU is identified by trackers as President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's personal jet, sourced to an Egyptian Presidency archive record of a 3 April 2023 arrival in Riyadh (@ProjectConstitu).
  • SU-BTT is placed on the Sharm el-Sheikh tarmac beside Air Force One on 13 October 2025, in Fox News live coverage of the Gaza peace summit. That sighting has its own page: Sharm el-Sheikh, 13 October 2025.

Why fleet membership matters and what it does not prove. If these are presidential-fleet airframes, then "a charter company happened to send a jet to Utah" stops being available as an explanation, and the operator is a government. That is a real narrowing. It is not evidence that the government used them against anyone — a state VIP fleet flies diplomats, ministers, medical evacuations, procurement delegations, and maintenance ferries, and the last of those is exactly what the Duncan Aviation counter-explanation says was happening.

Counterargument​

Stated plainly, because a page without it is propaganda rather than research.

  • Cairo is where these aircraft live. An Egyptian-registered aircraft departing and returning to Cairo is the least remarkable fact available. It carries no inference on its own.
  • The Cairo–Paris–US–Wilmington–Cairo loop is a maintenance-ferry profile. Five to eight days on the ground at a field with a Falcon or Gulfstream service centre, a fifteen-minute repositioning hop at the US end, and a fixed customs stop on the way out is what a shop visit looks like. It is not what following a person looks like — a tasking that tracked an individual would produce dwell times that tracked that person's calendar, and these do not.
  • Le Bourget is the obvious stop for a French-built aircraft. Dassault is French. Reading Paris as tradecraft requires ignoring the manufacturer.
  • Inshas proximity is coincidence unless someone produces a passenger. It is thirty-seven miles from an international hub in a country of over a hundred million people.
  • The "wrong continent" audits point back here. A majority of the disputed spreadsheet rows resolve to the aircraft sitting at Cairo. That cuts against the tally, from the same data the tally was built on.

What we do not know​

  1. No manifest, crew list, or passenger record has been published for any Cairo departure or arrival in this record. Everything about who was aboard is inference.
  2. Whether the aircraft ever operated from Inshas or any other military field in Egypt. No leg in this record does; whether any unlogged leg did is unknown, and ADS-B coverage over Egypt is not something this repo can characterise.
  3. Which office actually operates each tail. "Egyptian Air Force," "Egyptian presidential fleet," and "Egyptian government VIP" are used interchangeably in the posts. The FAA-equivalent registry entry that would settle it has not been produced for any of the five.
  4. The two published takeoff times for the 11 September Wilmington → Cairo leg have never been reconciled — about 11:56 UTC in one account, about 13:14 UTC in another.
  5. Whether the Cairo-goes-dark-over-Israel date list is real. Israel Planes records the claim that these same tails lose their transponder returns over the eastern Mediterranean on Cairo-originated legs. That is an inference from a claimed blackout, not a confirmed landing anywhere.

Interesting​

  • Minot is where US customs actually processed everyone aboard the Provo flights — and nobody has requested those records.
  • Lincoln carries the Duncan Aviation contract that is the strongest innocent explanation in the case.
  • Sharm el-Sheikh is where the same tail turns up beside Air Force One.