Omaha (KOMA) — February 2024 to October 2025
Egyptian-registered jets landed at Omaha six times between February 2024 and October 2025. On every single occasion, the aircraft took off again for Lincoln within twenty minutes. Not once did one of them stay.
That single fact is what this page exists to establish, because "Omaha, Nebraska" appears repeatedly in the shadowing counts as though it were a place these aircraft went. It is not. It is where they cleared into the country before flying a quarter of an hour west to Lincoln.
The airport
| Name | Eppley Airfield |
| Identifiers | KOMA (ICAO) / OMA (IATA) |
| City / State | Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska |
| Class | Commercial-service international airport — the largest airport in Nebraska |
| Distance to Lincoln (KLNK) | ~50 miles, ~15–20 minutes by air |
| Why it matters | It has US Customs and Border Protection facilities. Lincoln's are limited. This is the operational reason for the split. |
How unusual is a foreign government jet here
Not unusual at all, and that is the point. Eppley is Nebraska's international gateway with full customs handling. A transatlantic business jet arriving from Paris and clearing into the United States at Omaha is precisely what the airport is for. An arrival here is not an anomaly requiring explanation; it is the ordinary front door.
The foreign side — every arrival and the hop that followed it
| Date | Aircraft | Arrived from | Arrival time | Onward to Lincoln | Hop duration | Total time on the Omaha ramp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Feb 2024 | SU-BTT | Paris–Le Bourget | 10:57 am | Lincoln | (logged same day) | minutes |
| 26 Nov 2024 | SU-BTU | Paris (9:12 flight) | 1:45 pm | Lincoln, landed 4:28 pm | 0:19 | ~2½ h |
| 17 Jan 2025 | SU-BTU | Paris (9:10) | 1:07 pm | Lincoln, landed 3:27 pm | 0:15 | ~2 h |
| 17 Mar 2025 | SU-BTV | Paris (8:39) | 10:59 am | Lincoln, landed 1:15 pm | 0:18 | ~2 h |
| 24 Apr 2025 | SU-BTU | Paris (8:52) | 10:50 am | Lincoln, landed 12:10 pm | 0:16 | ~1¼ h |
| 20 Jul 2025 | SU-BTT | Paris (9:10) | 11:37 am | Lincoln, departed 5:05 pm | 0:16 | ~5½ h |
| 17 Aug 2025 | SU-BTT | Paris (8:48) | 10:49 am | Lincoln, landed ~noon | 0:15 | ~1¼ h |
| 5 Oct 2025 | SU-BTV | Paris (9:20) | 11:15 am | Lincoln, landed 12:26 pm | 0:19 | ~1 h |
Every hop is between 15 and 19 minutes. Eight arrivals, eight quarter-hour departures for Lincoln, over twenty months, by three different aircraft.
The ground time at Omaha ranges from about an hour to about five and a half — which is the range you get from a customs clearance plus a crew break, and nothing like the range you get from a visit.
Why a 15-minute flight instead of a car
This question is worth answering directly because it looks odd. Omaha to Lincoln is about an hour's drive on Interstate 80. Why fly?
Because the aircraft has to get to Lincoln. The people are not the cargo — the airframe is. If a jet is going into the shop at Duncan Aviation's Lincoln plant, the jet must physically be at Lincoln. Clearing customs at Omaha and repositioning empty or near-empty to Lincoln is standard practice for exactly this reason, and it is why every one of these hops exists.
That is also why the Omaha hop is the strongest single piece of evidence for the maintenance reading anywhere in this section. There is no surveillance interpretation of a 15-minute positioning flight between two Nebraska cities. It is an aircraft moving itself to a facility.
The Kirk / TPUSA side
The researcher timeline offers two Omaha-area pairings, and both need care.
| Date | Kirk / TPUSA event | Aircraft position | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Apr 2024 | Charlie Kirk speaking in Omaha, Nebraska, at Lord of Hosts Church | Aircraft not at Omaha. SU-BTT's Omaha arrival was 9 February 2024, two months earlier. | 2 months |
| 11 Feb 2024 | TPUSA opens a Lincoln chapter | SU-BTT on the ground at Lincoln, not Omaha | Covered on the Lincoln page |
The one date Charlie Kirk is documented in Omaha — 9 April 2024, Lord of Hosts Church — has no Egyptian aircraft anywhere near Nebraska. The nearest Omaha arrival in the whole record is two months earlier.
That is a clean, checkable non-overlap, and it is the mirror image of the Lincoln finding, where the one documented Kirk appearance in that city (25 August 2023) also has the aircraft on a different continent. Twice now, in the two Nebraska cities where Charlie Kirk actually appeared, the aircraft was not there.
The overlap table
| Date | Foreign tail | Foreign movement | Kirk / TPUSA side | Gap | Arrived from | Departed to | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Feb 2024 | SU-BTT | Lands 10:57 am, departs for Lincoln same day | (none at Omaha) | — | Paris (LBG) | Lincoln (LNK) | Audit: index 20 partially accurate — "flew from Omaha to Lincoln" |
| 9 Apr 2024 | none | No aircraft in Nebraska | Charlie Kirk speaks in Omaha, Lord of Hosts Church | No overlap | — | — | Clean non-overlap |
| 26 Nov 2024 | SU-BTU | Lands 1:45 pm, Lincoln by 4:28 pm | (none) | — | Paris | Lincoln | Export only |
| 17 Jan 2025 | SU-BTU | Lands 1:07 pm, Lincoln by 3:27 pm | (none) | — | Paris | Lincoln | Export only |
| 17 Mar 2025 | SU-BTV | Lands 10:59 am, Lincoln by 1:15 pm | (none) | — | Paris | Lincoln | Export only |
| 24 Apr 2025 | SU-BTU | Lands 10:50 am, Lincoln by 12:10 pm | (none) | — | Paris | Lincoln | Export only |
| 20 Jul 2025 | SU-BTT | Lands 11:37 am, departs 5:05 pm | (none) | — | Paris | Lincoln | Audit: partially accurate |
| 17 Aug 2025 | SU-BTT | Lands 10:49 am, Lincoln by noon | (none) | — | Paris | Lincoln | Audit: accurate-ish |
| 5 Oct 2025 | SU-BTV | Lands 11:15 am, Lincoln by 12:26 pm | (none) | — | Paris | Lincoln | Export only — after the assassination |
Not one Omaha arrival in this table has a Kirk or TPUSA pairing offered by anybody. They enter the shadowing counts as Nebraska entries because the aircraft touched Nebraska soil.
Where the audit puts these dates
The independent line-by-line audit of the overlap spreadsheet is unusually harsh on the Omaha rows, and the pattern of its objections is instructive:
- Index 20 (9 Feb 2024, "Cairo→Paris→Omaha"): "Accurate-ish, flew from Omaha to Lincoln." The route is right as far as it goes; the sheet stops at Omaha and misses that the aircraft immediately left.
- Index 21 (14 Feb 2024, "Omaha→Wilmington→Cairo"): "Flew from Lincoln to Wilmington, not Omaha." The sheet has the departure from the wrong city entirely.
- Index 47 (15 Mar 2023, "Paris→Omaha, Nebraska"): "in Egypt or Jordan."
- Index 48 (27 Mar 2023, "Omaha→Wilmington→Cairo"): "In Egypt."
- Index 55 (15 Apr 2024, "Paris→Omaha→Cairo"): "Cairo 5 Apr – 16 Apr."
- Index 62 (8 Feb 2025, "Paris→Omaha→Cairo"): "Cairo."
Index 21 is the most revealing. It shows the source sheet treating Omaha as the place the aircraft was, when the aircraft had left Omaha five days earlier and was at Lincoln. The error is not random — it is what happens when a compiler records the arrival airport and never checks whether the aircraft stayed there.
The counterargument
There is barely a claim here to argue against, which is itself the finding:
- Eppley Airfield is Nebraska's international port of entry. A transatlantic arrival clearing customs here is the ordinary use of the airport.
- Every arrival departs for Lincoln within twenty minutes. No visit occurred. There is nothing to explain except a customs stop.
- Duncan Aviation's main plant is at Lincoln, and it has held the Egyptian Air Force maintenance account since 1999. The hop is the aircraft moving to the shop.
- The one documented Kirk appearance in Omaha has no aircraft within two months of it.
What we do not know
- Who disembarked at Omaha, if anyone. Customs was cleared here. The entry records for every person aboard all eight arrivals are CBP records at Omaha, not Lincoln and not Provo. None has been requested publicly.
- Whether the hop to Lincoln carried passengers or was flown empty. Repositioning flights frequently carry only crew. Nothing in the public record says which.
- The 20 July 2025 five-and-a-half-hour ground time is longer than the others by a factor of four. Nobody has explained it, and nobody has asked.
- The Kirk-side event dates are uncited, coming from a researcher timeline on X.
Links
- Up: Following overview · Following Charlie or Erika · Planes
- Where every Omaha arrival actually went: Lincoln (KLNK)
- Tails: SU-BTT · SU-BTU · SU-BTV
- The exit airport: Wilmington (KILG)
- The other entry airports: Detroit (KDTW) · Minot (KMOT) · St. Louis (KSTL)