The Department of Homeland Security bought ten used jets for $464 million under a no-bid contract, saying they were urgently needed for deportation flights. This page tracks what they have actually done since. Between November 1, 2025 and August 18, 2026, 7 of the ten have flown at all and 2 flew in the last 30 days. N476US, N477US produced no ADS-B signal on a single one of the 291 days checked.
$464MContract value
10Jets bought
7Ever seen flying
2Flew in last 30 days
101Flights on record
74 of 291Days any jet flew
The fleet does not behave as one.
The 2 Gulfstream business jets account for
31 of the 101 flights on record.
The 5 Boeing 737s account for
70, but
41 of those belong to a single
aircraft, N471US, and only
1 of the 737s flew at all in the last
30 days.
Purchase details reported by The New York Times, August 13, 2026 ("Homeland Security Paid $464 Million for Airplanes. Then It Parked Them."); tail numbers from rzjets.net.
Fleet map
Tracks for all ten tail numbers on a single day. It opens on
August 18, 2026, the most recent day any of them flew; step back
with the arrows to see any other day.
For every aircraft, every day, this page asks ADS-B Exchange whether that
tail number produced a track. Each day is then recorded as one of four
things: it flew, it appeared but stayed on the ground, it produced no
trace at all, or it could not be checked.
Days that could not be checked are excluded from every total rather than
counted as idle — there are
0 of them on record. An absence of ADS-B data
is strong evidence an aircraft did not fly, but it is not proof: a
transponder can be switched off, and receiver coverage has gaps. Each
tail number below links to ADS-B Exchange so any figure here can be
checked independently.
Aircraft types come from the transponders themselves. Reporting describes
the purchase as seven older Boeing 737 passenger jets plus three business
aircraft — two Gulfstreams and a 737 in a luxury configuration.
This page does not try to match that description to particular tail
numbers beyond the type each aircraft broadcasts, so a 737 here may be a
passenger jet or the luxury one.
Purchase details reported by The New York Times, August 13, 2026 ("Homeland Security Paid $464 Million for Airplanes. Then It Parked Them."); tail numbers from rzjets.net. Aircraft are identified by the ICAO 24-bit
transponder address derived from each registration.