St. Louis (KSTL / KCPS) — December 2022 to February 2025
Missouri is one of the five states in the geographic clustering offered as evidence of the shadowing pattern, and St. Louis is where it comes from. Three aircraft — SU-BTT, SU-BND and SU-BTU — visited across the window, including one stay that ran nearly three months.
This is also where the closest documented Kirk-side pairing in the entire pre-2025 record sits, and where the compiler of the source timeline was honest enough to footnote the distance rather than hide it.
The airports — and why there are two
| Name | Lambert–St. Louis International Airport |
| Identifiers | KSTL / STL |
| Class | Major commercial-service international airport, US customs port of entry |
| Name | St. Louis Downtown Airport |
| Identifiers | KCPS / CPS |
| Location | Cahokia, Illinois — across the Mississippi from downtown St. Louis |
| Class | General aviation reliever airport |
| Distance apart | ~15 miles; a 15-minute flight, which is exactly what the record shows |
The two-airport structure matters for the counts. The February 2025 rotation logs "St. Louis (STL) → St. Louis Downtown (CPS)" as a 15-minute flight — the same repositioning signature this fleet produces at Omaha→Lincoln. Lambert is the customs port; Cahokia is where the aircraft actually parks. Anyone tallying "St. Louis visits" from a leg list will find two entries for one arrival.
Note also that KCPS is physically in Illinois, not Missouri. A "Missouri overlap" logged against a CPS arrival is a state-level match to the wrong state.
How unusual is a foreign government jet here
Lambert is unremarkable — a major international airport with full customs. St. Louis Downtown is the more interesting field: a general aviation reliever with a substantial corporate and maintenance presence, of the kind business jets use when they want to be near a city without being at its airline hub. Neither is anomalous for this aircraft type.
The foreign side — every documented visit
| Date | Aircraft | Route in | Departed | Onward | Audit verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Dec 2022 | SU-BTT | Cairo → Paris (19 Dec) → St. Louis, arriving 11:37 am | 27 Dec 2022 | Bangor, Maine → Cairo; back 3 Jan | Accurate (indices 6 and 7) |
| 21 Feb 2023 | SU-BND | — | ~May 2023 | Goose Bay → Paris → Cairo, 9 May | Accurate (index 15) |
| 25 Feb 2023 | SU-BTT | Cairo → Paris (24 Feb) → St. Louis | 2 Mar 2023 | Wilmington; Cairo 4 Mar | Partially accurate (index 46: "1 week in St. Louis (KSUS)") |
| 1 Apr 2023 | SU-BTT | Cairo → Paris (31 Mar) → St. Louis, landing 11:02 am | 6 Apr 2023 | Wilmington; Cairo 8 Apr | Accurate (indices 10 and 11) |
| 3 May 2023 | SU-BND | — | — | logged as a "test flight" | Accurate-with-caveat (index 14: "It did fly in St. Louis that day, but it doesn't say test flight in the data") |
| 16 Feb 2025 | SU-BTU | Cairo → Paris (15 Feb) → STL (9:10), then STL → CPS (0:15) | 22 Feb 2025 | Wilmington (1:38); Cairo 23 Feb (9:52) | Export only |
A third St. Louis-area airport appears in the audit
The audit's note on index 46 reads: "1 week in St. Louis (KSUS)." KSUS is Spirit of St. Louis Airport, in Chesterfield, Missouri — a third field in the metro area, roughly 20 miles west of downtown, and one of the busiest general-aviation airports in the region.
So the record touches three separate St. Louis-area airports: Lambert (KSTL, Missouri), Downtown/Cahokia (KCPS, Illinois), and Spirit of St. Louis (KSUS, Missouri). A state-level tally counting "Missouri" cannot distinguish them, and a leg-level tally counting arrivals will multiply one visit into several.
The Kirk / TPUSA side — the best pairing in the pre-2025 record
| Date | Kirk / TPUSA event | Aircraft position | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Apr 2023 | TPUSA Faith kicks off its tour with an event headed by Sean Feucht in Jefferson City, Missouri — the tour co-chaired by Rob McCoy | SU-BTT on the ground at St. Louis, having landed 11:02 am on 1 April; departs 6 April | Next day, inside the stay — but ~130 miles away |
| 21 Feb 2023 | (no named event) | SU-BND lands at St. Louis and stays until May | — |
| 27 Feb 2023 | Sean Feucht announced as TPUSA Faith contributor | SU-BND on the ground at St. Louis; SU-BTT arrives 25 Feb | Inside both stays |
| 28 Feb 2023 | Sean Feucht announced as head of the "Kingdom to the Capitol" tour | Same | Inside both stays |
| 20 Feb 2023 | James O'Keefe ousted from Project Veritas; Kirk announces support | — | Context, not a pairing |
The 1–6 April 2023 pairing, weighed honestly
This is the strongest thing in this section outside Utah, and the compiler of the timeline flagged its weakness himself.
The pairing: SU-BTT flies Cairo → Paris → St. Louis, landing at 11:02 am on 1 April 2023. The next day, 2 April, TPUSA Faith launches its tour with a Sean Feucht event in Jefferson City, Missouri. The aircraft stays until 6 April, then leaves for Wilmington and Cairo. The audit marks both the arrival and the departure accurate — the flights happened as described.
And the timeline's own footnote reads: "Event is in Jefferson City, MO (2 hrs from St. Louis)."
That is a compiler marking his own strongest row as a 130-mile, two-hour-drive match. It is the single most creditable act of sourcing anywhere in this material, and it is worth saying so: the person building the case wrote down the distance that weakens it.
What survives, stated at its real strength: an Egyptian-registered jet was on the ground in the same US metropolitan area for the five days spanning the launch of a TPUSA Faith tour, and a second Egyptian jet had been parked there since February. Two foreign aircraft in one metro area across a period of TPUSA activity is a real co-location. It is not a same-airport, same-day overlap, and no one has claimed either Kirk was in Missouri on any of these dates.
The February 2023 cluster
The most concentrated period in the pre-2025 record: SU-BND lands at St. Louis on 21 February 2023 and stays until May — nearly three months — while SU-BTT arrives on 25 February and stays until 2 March. Two Egyptian jets in one metro area for a week, overlapping the dates Sean Feucht was announced as a TPUSA Faith contributor (27 Feb) and as head of the "Kingdom to the Capitol" tour (28 Feb).
The counter-reading is the same one that explains SU-BND's later 113-day stay at Provo: a three-month stay is a maintenance stay. A 1998-build Gulfstream IV sitting for eleven weeks and then flying home via Goose Bay is what a heavy check looks like, not what an operation looks like. The audit marks that departure accurate (index 15: "Overall yes, STL to Goose Bay, GB to Paris, Paris to Cairo").
The overlap table
| Date | Foreign tail | Foreign movement | Kirk / TPUSA side | Gap | Arrived from | Departed to | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20–27 Dec 2022 | SU-BTT | Lands 11:37 am 20 Dec; departs 27 Dec | (none identified) | — | Paris | Bangor, ME → Cairo | Audited accurate ×2 |
| 21 Feb – May 2023 | SU-BND | ~11-week stay | Feucht TPUSA Faith announcements 27–28 Feb | Inside the stay | — | Goose Bay → Paris → Cairo | Audited accurate |
| 25 Feb – 2 Mar 2023 | SU-BTT | ~1 week | Same | Inside the stay | Paris | Wilmington → Cairo | Audit: partially accurate |
| 1–6 Apr 2023 | SU-BTT | Lands 11:02 am 1 Apr; departs 6 Apr | TPUSA Faith tour launch, Jefferson City MO, 2 Apr | Next day — but 2 hours' drive | Paris | Wilmington → Cairo | Audited accurate ×2 |
| 3 May 2023 | SU-BND | Local flight | (none identified) | — | — | — | Audit: flew, but not logged as a test flight |
| 16–22 Feb 2025 | SU-BTU | STL→CPS 15-min hop, 6-day stay | (none identified) | — | Paris | Wilmington → Cairo | Export only |
| 12 May 2023 | claimed SU-BND | "Cairo" | claimed "Missouri→Paris→Cairo" | Different continent | — | — | Audit: index 50 inaccurate |
| 10 Mar 2024 | claimed SU-BTT | "Cairo" | claimed "Paris→St. Louis→Cairo" | Different continent | — | — | Audit: index 53 inaccurate |
| 3 May 2024 | claimed SU-BND | "Plane was on the ground in Provo" | claimed "Test flight → Missouri" | Wrong state | — | — | Audit: index 56 inaccurate — and it is index 14 re-entered a year later |
| 10 May 2024 | claimed SU-BND | "Provo, sitting in Provo 19 Apr – 17 Jul" | claimed "Missouri→Paris→Cairo" | Wrong state | — | — | Audit: index 57 inaccurate |
The duplicate that is easiest to see
Index 56 is index 14 with the year advanced. Both read "Test flight" → Missouri, both attributed to SU-BND; index 14 is dated 3 May 2023 and index 56 is dated 3 May 2024. The audit marks the 2023 entry accurate — the aircraft did fly at St. Louis that day — and the 2024 entry inaccurate, noting the plane was on the ground at Provo and calling it "a duplicate of number 14 plus one year."
A single real event has become two rows in the tally, one of which is a year off and describes the aircraft being 1,200 miles away. It is the cleanest illustration in the whole audit of how a mechanical error inflates a count, and it sits on this page.
The counterargument
- The 2023 pairing is a two-hour drive away, and the compiler said so. Jefferson City is not St. Louis.
- Neither Kirk is placed in Missouri on any of these dates by any source. The pairings are all with TPUSA organisational events, not with a person's presence.
- A three-month stay is a maintenance stay. SU-BND's February–May 2023 St. Louis stay is the same signature as its 113-day Provo stay in 2025.
- The February 2025 rotation is the standard template — Cairo → Paris → US entry → 15-minute repositioning hop → six-day dwell → Wilmington → Cairo. Identical in shape to the nine Lincoln rotations.
- Three separate airports, one metro area. Leg-level counting multiplies a single visit.
- Four of the claimed Missouri overlaps fail outright — two put the aircraft in Egypt, two put it in Utah, and one of those is a duplicate.
What we do not know
- Which St. Louis-area airport each aircraft actually parked at, and which facility worked on them. The audit's own KSUS reference suggests the published summaries are not tracking this correctly.
- Whether anything was being done to SU-BND during its eleven weeks on the ground in 2023. No shop record has been produced.
- Whether Charlie or Erika Kirk was in Missouri on any of these dates. No source claims either was.
- The Kirk-side event dates are uncited, coming from a researcher timeline circulated on X.
- Whether the 2 April 2023 Jefferson City event has any documented connection to a St. Louis arrival, beyond proximity in time and state.
Links
- Up: Following overview · Following Charlie or Erika · Planes
- Tails: SU-BTT · SU-BND · SU-BTU
- The exit airport: Wilmington (KILG)
- The same repositioning-hop signature: Omaha (KOMA)
- The same long-stay signature: Provo (KPVU)
- The Kansas equivalent: Wichita (KICT)
- TPUSA — the event side of every pairing on this page