GHOST JET

found a literal ghost jet on video.
tail kept slipping away.

A woman in black with a pink case walks past a business jet at the Atlantic Aviation terminal, Burbank. Tail number partly visible. — Lucky Kermit · planespotting video · 5 Mar 2022 · Atlantic Aviation, Burbank

The footage

A planespotting video posted by Lucky Kermit (YouTube, dated 5 Mar 2022) shows a woman in black with a pink case walking past a private jet at the Atlantic Aviation private jet terminal, Hollywood Burbank Airport. The tail reads N143K and one letter is half hidden by the winglet.

First reading: N143KP

“saw this planespotting clip on youtube and looked up the tail number out of curiosity. thought it'd be some rich guy's charter llc or shell company.”

The FAA registry lists N143KP as reserved to SBS PRGM OFC, 800 Independence Ave SW, Washington: the FAA's Surveillance and Broadcast Services office.
The same office runs the Privacy ICAO Address program, which lets operators “mask their aircraft movements and identity” (FAA · Federal Register).
Reserved on 02/29/2020, a leap day. Purge date 99/99/9999, a date that doesn't exist (a registry purge value, not a calendar date).

Tail detail from the footage: N143K and one letter half hidden by the winglet — Tail detail · original footage

B, not P

“i posted it. Reddit caught one letter.” A Reddit reply: “The bottom of the B is covered by the winglet.” The corrected reading is N143KB. Today N143KB is registered to a DJI AGRAS T40 crop-spraying drone (FAA certificate 9 Jul 2024), later than the footage: same number, different aircraft.

Serial 9108 · one airframe · four records

18 Dec 2015 · photographed as N143KB (JetPhotos · F. Olivares M.)
31 Jul 2017 · FAA certificate issue date as N313BK (Bombardier BD-700-1A10, serial 9108)
5 Mar 2022 · the video still shows N143KB
14 May 2022 · photographed as N313BK (JetPhotos · G. Langlois)

4 years 7 months between the FAA re-registration and the video that still shows the old number.

N143KB, serial 9108, photographed 18 Dec 2015 — 18 Dec 2015 · N143KB · JetPhotos

N313BK, serial 9108, photographed 14 May 2022 — 14 May 2022 · N313BK · JetPhotos

Duchesne

The N313BK registry record carries the county field DUCHESNE: Duchesne County, Uinta Basin, Utah. Same basin: Skinwalker Ranch (Uintah County).

Same FAA record: registered owner “TVPX AIRCRAFT SOLUTIONS INC TRUSTEE” (a trustee registration), certificate issue date 07/31/2017, Mode S code A35219 (hex), the transponder address in the registry.

The FAA also runs LADD, Limiting Aircraft Data Displayed: owners can have their flight data “filtered from public display by web sites that participate in the program.”

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