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Wilmington (KILG) — November 2022 to October 2025

Wilmington, Delaware appears more often in the Egyptian fleet's flight record than any other airport in the world outside Egypt and France. Every US rotation by SU-BTT, SU-BTU and SU-BTV from 2022 to 2025 ends here before crossing the Atlantic.

And in three years, not one of those rotations ever begins here. Wilmington appears on the outbound leg only, every single time, without exception. That asymmetry is what this page exists to document, because "Delaware" is one of the five states in the geographic clustering offered as evidence of the shadowing pattern — and a state that only ever appears on the way out of the country is not a place anyone was being followed to.

The airport​

NameWilmington Airport / New Castle Airport
IdentifiersKILG (ICAO) / ILG (IATA)
City / StateWilmington, New Castle County, Delaware
ClassPublic-use commercial/general aviation airport with a Delaware Air National Guard presence
Role in business aviationA well-established East Coast customs and fuel stop for transatlantic corporate flights, in the Philadelphia–Baltimore–Washington corridor but without the slot pressure of the major hubs
Not to be confused withWilmington, North Carolina — ILM. See the correction section below.

How unusual is a foreign government jet here​

Unremarkable. Wilmington's function in transatlantic business aviation is precisely this: a last-stop-before-the-ocean field where an aircraft clears US customs outbound, takes fuel, and departs east. Its convenience is that it is close to the Northeast corridor without being inside it.

The foreign side — twelve departures, zero arrivals from abroad​

Every Wilmington appearance in the record, with what came before and after it.

DateAircraftArrived at ILG fromDeparted ILG toTime on ground
17–20 Nov 2022SU-BTTWichita, 8:54 am 17 NovCairo, 7:37 am 20 Nov3 days
2–4 Mar 2023SU-BTTSt. Louis, 2 MarCairo, 4 Mar2 days
6–8 Apr 2023SU-BTTSt. Louis (Missouri), 6 AprCairo, 8 Apr2 days
20–21 Apr 2023SU-BTTWichita, 20 AprGiza, 21 Apr1 day
14–16 Feb 2024SU-BTTLincoln, 8:38 am 14 FebCairo, 16 Feb2 days
3–5 Apr 2024SU-BTTWichita, 8:43 am 3 AprCairo, 5 Apr2 days
28–30 Apr 2024SU-BTTProvo, 28 AprCairo, 30 Apr2 days
1–3 Dec 2024SU-BTULincoln (2:02)Cairo (9:36), 12:39 am 3 Dec2 days
10–15 Dec 2024SU-BTVWichita (2:09)Cairo (10:38), 15 Dec5 days
23–24 Jan 2025SU-BTULincoln (1:38)Cairo (9:52), 12:57 am 24 Jan1 day
9–10 Feb 2025SU-BTVLincoln (1:52)Cairo (10:19), 10 Feb1 day
22–23 Feb 2025SU-BTUSt. Louis Downtown (CPS) (1:38)Cairo (9:52)1 day
23–24 Mar 2025SU-BTVLincoln (2:02)Cairo (10:29)1 day
3–6 Apr 2025SU-BTVWichita (2:11)Cairo (11:11)3 days
14–15 Apr 2025SU-BTUProvo (3:19)Cairo (10:10)1 day
30 Apr – 1 May 2025SU-BTULincoln (2:07)Cairo (10:57), 12:50 am1 day
2–3 Jun 2025SU-BTVProvo (2:11)Cairo (11:11)1 day
26–27 Jul 2025SU-BTTLincoln (2:07)Cairo (10:19), 12:21 am 27 Jul1 day
23–24 Aug 2025SU-BTTLincoln (2:05)Cairo (10:07), 11:54 pm 24 Aug1 day
10–11 Sep 2025SU-BTTProvo (3:37), departed 07:14 am 10 SepCairo (9:43), departed 7:56 am 11 Sepovernight
11–12 Oct 2025SU-BTVLincoln (2:15)Cairo (10:53)1 day

Twenty-one appearances. Every single one is "arrived from somewhere in the United States, departed for Cairo or Giza." Not once in three years does an aircraft in this fleet arrive at Wilmington from outside the United States.

What the asymmetry means​

An airport that only ever appears on the way out is doing one job. Wilmington is where these aircraft clear US customs outbound and take fuel for the Atlantic crossing. The ground times — overwhelmingly one to three days — are consistent with a crew rest plus a departure slot, not with a visit.

That has a direct consequence for the overlap counts. Delaware is one of the five states in the clustering offered as evidence that the fleet was following the Kirks. But a state the aircraft only ever touch on their way home is not a destination. Any "Delaware overlap" is an overlap with the aircraft's exit procedure.

The September 10 departure is different, and it is different in a specific way​

The 10 September 2025 row is the one everybody knows about, and it looks like all the others in the table — Provo → Wilmington → Cairo, overnight, exactly the pattern of the twenty other rotations.

What is not routine about it is the timing at the front end. SU-BTT departed Provo at 07:14 am local, roughly five hours before Charlie Kirk was shot. Every other rotation's US departure leg happened at a time nobody had any reason to note.

Two readings, both stated:

  • The pattern reading: this is the twenty-first identical rotation. The aircraft finished its six-day Provo stay, flew to its usual customs stop, overnighted, and went home. The date is what makes it notable, not the flight.
  • The timing reading: the aircraft left the city on the morning of the event, and the section of the overlap sheet covering this date is one of the few the independent audit confirms — it marks the leg accurate while correcting the sheet's stated origin from "Paris" to Provo.

The one thing the record does establish is that the destination was not chosen for this trip. Wilmington had been the outbound stop on twenty previous rotations going back to November 2022.

The Wilmington building claim, and what this page can and cannot say about it​

A claim circulating on X ties the Wilmington destination to a specific address — 920 North King Street, One Rodney Square, Suite 404 — publicly associated over the years with federal agency offices, and describes an alleged foreign-dignitary transfer there on the evening of 10 September. That claim is set out in full on the SU-BTT page, where it belongs.

What this page adds is context that the claim's authors do not supply: the aircraft went to Wilmington on every rotation for three years. An address downtown does not explain twenty-one visits stretching back to 2022, most of which nobody has ever alleged anything about. If the September stop was operationally significant, the significance is in that stop specifically, not in the choice of city — which was fixed long before.

The Wilmington DE / Wilmington NC correction​

The most-circulated overlap timeline graphic, watermarked @AlsaceTX, contains a two-letter error that moves a claimed destination five hundred miles.

  • Its footnote reads: "Stops in Wilmington, NC for one day, leaves Wilmington for Cairo on 8/24."
  • Its September row reads "PVU-ILM" and "ILM-CAI."

ILM is Wilmington, North Carolina. ILG is Wilmington, Delaware. The Flightradar24 flight-history exports for all three aircraft show ILG on every rotation, including the 23–24 August one that footnote describes and the 10–11 September one.

Anyone auditing that graphic should read ILG and Delaware throughout. It is a small error and an easy one, but the two cities are in different states with different federal footprints, and the downtown-Wilmington claims above are claims about Delaware.

The overlap table​

DateForeign tailForeign movementKirk / TPUSA sideGapArrived fromDeparted toConfidence
17–20 Nov 2022SU-BTTOutbound stop, 3 days(none identified)—WichitaCairoAudit: index 5 inaccurate — sheet dated it 11/17, the flight did not occur until 11/20
2–4 Mar 2023SU-BTTOutbound stop(none identified)—St. LouisCairoAudit: index 46 partially accurate
6–8 Apr 2023SU-BTTOutbound stop(none identified)—MissouriCairoAudit: index 11 accurate
20–21 Apr 2023SU-BTTOutbound stop, 1 day(none identified)—WichitaGizaAudit: index 13 accurate
14–16 Feb 2024SU-BTTOutbound stop(none identified)—LincolnCairoAudit: index 21 inaccurate — sheet said Omaha→Wilmington; it flew Lincoln→Wilmington
3–5 Apr 2024SU-BTTOutbound stop(none identified)—WichitaCairoAudit: index 24 partially accurate — "the plane sat in Wilmington for 2 days"
28–30 Apr 2024SU-BTTOutbound stop(none identified)—ProvoCairoAudit: index 27 accurate
(twelve 2024–25 rotations)SU-BTU / SU-BTVOutbound stops, 1–5 days(none identified)—Lincoln / Wichita / Provo / St. LouisCairoExport only
10–11 Sep 2025SU-BTTArrives from Provo (dep. 07:14); departs Cairo 7:56 am 11 SepKirk shot at UVU ~12:23 pm 10 SepSame dayProvoCairoAudit: index 41 — flight confirmed, origin corrected to Provo
11–12 Oct 2025SU-BTVOutbound stop(none identified)—LincolnCairoExport only — after the assassination

Not one Wilmington appearance in twenty-one has a Kirk or TPUSA pairing offered by anybody. Delaware enters the shadowing counts as a state the aircraft touched.

The counterargument​

  • Wilmington is a standard East Coast customs and fuel stop for transatlantic business aviation. Its use is what the airport is for.
  • The asymmetry proves the function. Twenty-one appearances, all outbound, none inbound, over three years. A destination would appear in both directions.
  • The ground times are one to three days — crew rest and a slot, not a visit.
  • The pattern predates everything. The first Wilmington stop in this record is 17 November 2022.
  • No Kirk-side pairing has ever been offered for any Wilmington date, including the September one.
  • The Gulfstreams do not use it at all. SU-BND and SU-BGM route out through Goose Bay, Newfoundland instead — a range difference, not a mission difference. The Falcon 7X has roughly 5,900 nm of range and can reach Cairo from Wilmington; the older Gulfstream IVs need the North Atlantic tech stop.

What we do not know​

  1. What happened at Wilmington during any of the twenty-one stops. Ground handling records, FBO trip sheets and outbound CBP records exist for all of them and none is public.
  2. Whether anyone joined or left the aircraft here. The overnight stops are exactly long enough for it, and nothing in the record says either way.
  3. The 10–15 December 2024 five-day stop is far longer than the others. Nobody has explained it, and nobody has asked.
  4. Whether the 10 September stop differed from the other twenty. That is the only genuinely open question on this page, and answering it requires the FBO record for that night.
  5. Nothing links any named individual to any of these stops. The claims that do so are set out and assessed on the SU-BTT page.