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Lincoln (KLNK) — February 2024 to October 2025

Three Egyptian-registered Falcon 7X jets — SU-BTT, SU-BTU and SU-BTV — made seven documented arrivals at Lincoln Airport, Nebraska between February 2024 and October 2025, each staying six to eight days. Lincoln is the most-visited destination in the entire Egyptian fleet's US record.

It is also the location of Duncan Aviation's main plant, and Duncan Aviation has held the Egyptian Air Force's aircraft maintenance account since 1999. This page sets out both facts in full, because Lincoln is where the shadowing claim is at its numerically strongest and its evidentially weakest at the same time.

The airport​

NameLincoln Airport
IdentifiersKLNK (ICAO) / LNK (IATA)
City / StateLincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska
ClassCommercial service / joint civil-military, with a Nebraska Air National Guard presence
Distance from Omaha (KOMA)~50 miles — a 15-to-20-minute flight, which is exactly what the record shows
MRO on fieldDuncan Aviation — the company's headquarters and main plant, one of the largest privately-owned business-aviation MRO facilities in the world

How unusual is a foreign government jet here​

Less unusual than at Provo, and for a documented reason. Lincoln is a mid-sized Midwestern airport that would not ordinarily see Egyptian state aircraft — except that Duncan Aviation's global headquarters sits on the field, it does heavy maintenance on exactly this class of aircraft, and it has a named, published, decades-long relationship with this specific customer.

The contract that explains this page​

A Duncan Aviation press release, dated Thursday, 10/29/2015, 14:31, carried by the trade publication DOM — Director of Maintenance, headlined "Duncan Aviation Signs a Five-Year Contract With the Egyptian Air Force." Reproduced in the parts that matter:

…announces the company has entered into a five-year direct contract agreement with the Egyptian Air Force (EAF) for aircraft maintenance services. Duncan Aviation has been managing the maintenance and repair of the EAF fleet of Falcon 20 aircraft since 1999.

Duncan Aviation's Manager of Government & Special Programs Dave Shipperbottom says the fact that the EAF has chosen to fly over closer maintenance companies and bring their aircraft to Duncan Aviation "reveals a lot about our relationship with them. All the technicians at the squadron level are great to work with. They know us and we know them. It is a good relationship."

The first EAF aircraft arrived at Duncan Aviation's Lincoln, NE, facility on October 20 for a Z-check. The next will arrive in November for a C-check, Major Corrosion Inspection and complete paint.

Four points, each of which lands directly on this page's flight record:

  • The relationship dates to 1999 — twenty-six years, and fifteen years before Charlie Kirk's public career began.
  • The destination named in the release is Lincoln, Nebraska, the exact field in the table below.
  • The company's own manager anticipates and answers the obvious objection: the EAF flies past closer facilities to get there. The long ferry from Cairo is the documented norm for this customer, not an anomaly requiring explanation.
  • The named work types — Z-check, C-check, Major Corrosion Inspection, complete paint — are multi-day to multi-week events. A six-to-eight-day dwell is at the light end of that range and entirely ordinary.

The foreign side — every arrival and departure​

Times and durations as displayed in the Flightradar24 exports compiled by @WeAre_TheElite.

ArrivedAircraftEntry route into the USHop into LincolnDays on groundDepartedOnward
9 Feb 2024SU-BTTCairo → Paris → Omaha, lands 10:57 amOmaha → Lincoln514 Feb 2024, 8:38 amWilmington, 2 days, then Cairo 16 Feb
26 Nov 2024SU-BTUCairo → Paris → Omaha (9:12)Omaha → Lincoln, 0:1951 Dec 2024Wilmington (2:02), Cairo 3 Dec (9:36)
17 Jan 2025SU-BTUCairo → Paris → Omaha (9:10)Omaha → Lincoln, 0:15623 Jan 2025Wilmington (1:38), Cairo 24 Jan (9:52)
3 Feb 2025SU-BTVCairo → Paris → Detroit (8:29)Detroit → Lincoln, 1:4669 Feb 2025Wilmington (1:52), Cairo 10 Feb (10:19)
17 Mar 2025SU-BTVCairo → Paris → Omaha (8:39)Omaha → Lincoln, 0:18623 Mar 2025Wilmington (2:02), Cairo 24 Mar (10:29)
24 Apr 2025SU-BTUCairo → Paris → Omaha (8:52)Omaha → Lincoln, 0:16630 Apr 2025Wilmington (2:07), Cairo 1 May (10:57)
20 Jul 2025SU-BTTCairo → Paris → Omaha, lands 11:37 amOmaha → Lincoln, 0:16, departs 5:05 pm626 Jul 2025Wilmington (2:07), Cairo 27 Jul (10:19)
17 Aug 2025SU-BTTCairo → Paris → Omaha 10:49 amOmaha → Lincoln, 0:15, lands ~noon623 Aug 2025Wilmington (2:05), Cairo 24 Aug (10:07)
5 Oct 2025SU-BTVCairo → Paris → Omaha (9:20)Omaha → Lincoln, 0:19611 Oct 2025Wilmington (2:15), Cairo 12 Oct (10:53)

The pattern is a rotation, and the numbers say so​

Read down the columns rather than across the rows and the regularity is overwhelming:

  • The dwell is 5 or 6 days. Every single time. Nine visits, nine dwells of five or six days. A tasking that followed a person would vary with that person's schedule. A shop turnaround does not.
  • The repositioning hop is 15 to 19 minutes. Seven of the nine arrive at Omaha and hop to Lincoln in a quarter of an hour. A Falcon 7X does not fly a 15-minute sector between two Nebraska cities for any reason except to move to a facility. Omaha is the international arrival airport; Lincoln is the destination.
  • Wilmington is on the outbound leg of all nine, and only the outbound leg. It is a customs and fuel stop, not a place these aircraft go.
  • The whole rotation is Cairo → Paris-Le Bourget → US entry → hop → sit six days → Wilmington → Cairo. Flown identically nine times by three different aircraft over twenty months.

The Kirk / TPUSA side​

Two pairings are offered in the researcher timeline. Both are set out here at their real strength.

DateKirk / TPUSA eventAircraft positionGap
11 Feb 2024"Turning Point USA begins a chapter in Lincoln, Nebraska"SU-BTT on the ground at Lincoln, day 3 of a 5-day staySame city, inside the stay
8 Feb 2024Charlie Kirk's campus tour publicly announced (with Candace Owens)SU-BTT arrives Omaha 10:57 am on 9 Feb, hops to LincolnDay after
25 Aug 2023Charlie Kirk speaks in Lincoln, NebraskaAircraft in Egypt per the independent auditDifferent continent

The February 2024 pairing, weighed honestly​

This is the best Lincoln pairing that exists, and it is not strong. A TPUSA chapter opening in Lincoln on 11 February 2024, while an Egyptian jet sat on the Lincoln ramp mid-way through a five-day maintenance-shaped stay, is a same-city, same-week co-location. It is exactly the kind of row a ±3-day overlap window produces.

Three things weaken it further:

  • A chapter opening is not a Kirk appearance. Nothing in the record places Charlie Kirk in Lincoln on 11 February 2024.
  • The aircraft was there before the event and after it, having arrived on the 9th and left on the 14th. It did not arrive for the event or leave with it.
  • The 2023 counter-case is stronger than the 2024 case. On 25 August 2023, Charlie Kirk actually spoke in Lincoln, Nebraska — a genuine, in-person, named appearance in this exact city. The independent audit of the overlap sheet places the aircraft in Egypt on that date. The one time Charlie Kirk is documented in Lincoln, the plane was on another continent.

The overlap table​

DateForeign tailForeign movementKirk / TPUSA sideGapArrived fromDeparted toConfidence
25 Aug 2023—Aircraft in EgyptCharlie Kirk speaks in LincolnDifferent continent——Audit: no overlap
9–14 Feb 2024SU-BTTArrives 9 Feb via Omaha; departs 14 Feb 8:38 amTPUSA opens Lincoln chapter 11 FebInside the stayOmaha (OMA)WilmingtonAudit: index 20 partially accurate; index 21 inaccurate (route said Omaha→Wilmington; it flew Lincoln→Wilmington)
26 Nov – 1 Dec 2024SU-BTU5-day stay(none identified)—OmahaWilmingtonExport only
17–23 Jan 2025SU-BTU6-day stay(none identified)—OmahaWilmingtonExport only
3–9 Feb 2025SU-BTV6-day stay(none identified)—DetroitWilmingtonExport only
17–23 Mar 2025SU-BTV6-day stay(none identified)—OmahaWilmingtonExport only
24–30 Apr 2025SU-BTU6-day stay(none identified)—OmahaWilmingtonExport only
20–26 Jul 2025SU-BTTArrives Omaha 11:37 am, Lincoln by 5:05 pm; 6-day stay(none identified)—OmahaWilmingtonAudit: index 38/67 partially accurate
17–23 Aug 2025SU-BTTArrives Omaha 10:49 am, Lincoln ~noon; 6-day stay(none identified)—OmahaWilmingtonAudit: index 39 accurate-ish
5–11 Oct 2025SU-BTV6-day stay(none identified)—OmahaWilmingtonExport only — after the assassination

Six of the nine visits have no Kirk or TPUSA pairing offered by anybody. They appear in the shadowing counts as Nebraska entries because the aircraft was in Nebraska, not because anything was happening.

An error worth correcting in the source graphics​

The most-circulated overlap timeline graphic, watermarked @AlsaceTX, carries a footnote reading:

² Stops in Wilmington, NC for one day, leaves Wilmington for Cairo on 8/24

Wilmington, North Carolina is ILM. Wilmington, Delaware is ILG. The flight-history exports for all three aircraft show ILG — Delaware, on every rotation including the 23–24 August one this footnote describes. The same graphic elsewhere writes the September 10 leg as "PVU-ILM", which is the North Carolina code.

This is a two-letter transposition, but it moves a claimed destination five hundred miles and into a different state, and the Wilmington page explains why the destination matters. Anyone auditing that graphic should read ILG throughout.

The counterargument​

Stated at full strength, because on this page it is the stronger reading:

  • Duncan Aviation's headquarters is on this field, and it has held the Egyptian Air Force account since 1999. That is a published fact from a 2015 trade press release, not an inference.
  • The 15-to-19-minute Omaha hop is unexplainable any other way. No surveillance purpose is served by flying a large business jet a quarter of an hour between two Nebraska cities. It is a repositioning flight to a shop.
  • The dwell is fixed at five to six days across all nine visits. Fixed turnarounds are what maintenance produces.
  • The rotations continue after the assassination. SU-BTV flew the identical Lincoln rotation on 5–11 October 2025, a month after Charlie Kirk's death. Whatever this pattern is, it did not stop when he did.
  • The pre-2025 Lincoln claims fail the audit. The 25 August 2023 Lincoln appearance — the one date Charlie Kirk is genuinely documented in this city — has the aircraft in Egypt.

And the counter to it​

Two things the maintenance reading does not settle, kept here because a page without them is propaganda:

  1. Nine visits in twenty months is a lot of heavy maintenance for three aircraft. Z-checks and C-checks are periodic, not monthly. Whether nine six-day visits by three airframes over twenty months is a plausible inspection cadence is an aviation question that no one in this investigation has actually asked a maintenance engineer.
  2. A real relationship is also good cover. A twenty-six-year maintenance contract explains why these aircraft can be at Lincoln without anyone asking. It does not establish what any given trip carried.

Neither point is evidence. Both are open.

What we do not know​

  1. No work orders, no invoices, no shop records. Duncan Aviation has not commented publicly and its customer records are not public. A single confirmation of which airframes were in the shop on which dates would close this page.
  2. No manifests for any of the nine arrivals.
  3. Customs happened at the entry airport — Omaha, or Detroit for the February 2025 rotation — not at Lincoln.
  4. The TPUSA Lincoln chapter opening on 11 February 2024 is uncited, coming from a researcher timeline circulated on X.
  5. Whether Charlie or Erika Kirk was ever in Lincoln during any of the nine stays is unknown, and no source claims either was.