N313P-N4476S

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N313P-N4476S is listed among planes alleged to have been used for extraordinary rendition.

Registration number:	N4476S
Serial number:	33010
Manufacturer:	Boeing
Model:	737-7ET
Registered owner:	Keeler and Tate Management, LLC
Operator:
Previous reg numbers::	N313P

Background

According to Amnesty International (AI) [1], N313P-N4476S has "...396 recorded landings or taking offs between 22 November 2002 and 8 September 2005. Flight records show that it was the plane that took Khaled el-Masri from Skopje to Afghanistan in January 2004, and Human Rights Watch has identified it as the 'plane that the CIA used to move several prisoners to and from Europe, Afghanistan, and the Middle East in 2003 and 2004 – it landed in Poland and Romania on direct flights from Afghanistan on two occasions in 2003 and 2004.'

• Registration: First registered by Stevens Express Leasing, Inc., and then re-registered on 1 May 2002 by Premier Executive Transport Services, Inc.. Keeler and Tate Management, LLC re-registered the aircraft on 1 December 2004, as N4476S. This is the only aircraft registered under this company name.

• "Landing rights: Stevens Express Leasing Inc. and Premier Executive Transport Services were both permitted to land at US military bases worldwide. Their permits expired in 2005 and have not been renewed.

• "Range and capacity: average range of 5,510 nautical miles at 522/542 knots (non-stop Washington Dulles-Tashkent in 11 hours, for example), and can transport up to 127 passengers."

Known movements and sightings

"Use of Scottish airports includes: ... Plane N313P-N4476S, a Boeing 737-7ET (BBJ) aircraft, has passed through Glasgow Airport 19 times." See page 35 of the Amnesty International report. [2][3]

Date	Origin	Destination	Dep	Arr	Ref(s)	Comments
28 Jan 2004	Dulles, Washington DC, USA	Kinston, North Carolina, USA			[4]
28 Jan 2004	Palma, Spain	Dulles, Washington DC, USA			[5]
26 Jan 2004	Bucharest, Romania	Palma de Mallorca, Spain			[6]
25 Jan 2004	Timisoara, Romania	Bucharest, Romania			[7]
25 Jan 2004	Kabul, Afghanistan	Timisoara, Romania			[8]
24 Jan 2004	Baghdad, Iraq	Kabul,Afghanistan			[9]
24 Jan 2004	Skopje, Macedonia	Baghdad, Iraq			[10]
23 Jan 2004	Palma, Spain	Skopje, Macedonia			[11]
22 Jan 2004	Algiers, Algeria	Palma de Mallorca, Spain			[12]
22 Jan 2004	Kabul,Afghanistan	Algiers, Algeria			[13]
22 Jan 2004	Rabat, Morocco	Kabul, Afghanistan			[14]
21 Jan 2004	Larnaca, Cyprus	Rabat, Morocco			[15]
17 Jan 2004	Shannon, Ireland	Larnaca, Cyprus			[16]
16 Jan 2004	Dulles, Washington DC, USA	Shannon, Ireland			[17]
Dec 6 2003	RAF Northolt	Luqa, Malta	12:00	?	[18]
Dec 3 2003	Tripoli	RAF Northolt	?	13:00	[19]
Dec 1 2003	RAF Northolt	Tripoli	11:00	?	[20]
Dec 1 2003	Washington	RAF Northolt	?	08:50	[21]
Oct 29 2003	RAF Northolt	Shannon	17.45	?	[22]
Oct 29 2003	Tripoli	RAF Northolt	?	17.10	[23]
Oct 28 2003	RAF Northolt	Tripoli	12.00	?	[24]
Oct 22 2003	Tripoli	RAF Northolt	?	15.35	[25]
Oct 19 2003	RAF Northolt	Tripoli	13.00	?	[26]
Oct 19 2003	RAF Brize Norton	RAF Northolt	?	10.15	[27]
Late Sept 2003	Morocco	Guantanamo Bay			[28]
Sept 23, 2003	Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, Romania	Morocco			[29]
Sept 23, 2003	Szymany airport, Poland	Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, Romania			[30]
Sept 22, 2003	Kabul	Szymany airport, Poland			[31]	Human Rights Watch claims in connection with this flight that it "...has obtained information that several detainees who had been held secretly in Afghanistan in 2003 were transferred out of the country in September and October 2003."[32]
5 Dec 2002	Desert Rock Airport (DRA)	Las Vegas McCarran International Airport (LAS)			[33]
5 Dec 2002	Andrews AFB Airport (ADW)	Desert Rock Airport (DRA)			[34]

SourceWatch resources

• Central Intelligence Agency
• Desert Rock Airport
• Eric Robert Hume (alias Eric Matthew Fain)
• Extraordinary rendition
• James Kovalesky (alias James Richard Fairing)
• Keeler and Tate Management, LLC
• Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base

External links

Reports

• News Release: "EU: Rendition, revelation of 800 secret CIA flights in European airspace," Amnesty International, April 2006.

Citations for movements and sightings

• ^ "Desert Rock, Nevada", published by Keith Stein's ISI Consulting website. Now only available from the Google cache (dated June 11, 2005). (173KB PDF copy)
• ^ "Human Rights Watch Statement on U.S. Secret Detention Facilities in Europe", Human Rights Watch, November 7, 2005.
• ^ Richard Norton-Taylor, "Minister admits 'rendition' planes used RAF bases. Government breaks silence on CIA flights. Aircraft landed at Brize Norton and Northholt," The Guardian (UK), March 7, 2006.
• ^ Henry Habegger and Beat Kraushaar, "CIA-Jets: Stelldichein in Camp Atom", Blick (Switzerland), March 8, 2006. Machine translation by Google.
• ^ Edward Horgan, "EU Torture Committee has facts on CIA at Shannon," IndyMedia Ireland, April 28, 2006.