N819AX

N819AX is the Boeing 777-200ER that Omni Air International flew from Alexandria to Doha between September 29, 2025 and October 1, 2025. The reporting identifies that flight as a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement removal carrying 54 Iranian nationals ordered deported to Iran. The aircraft itself did not go to Iran: at Doha the people aboard were handed to a Qatar Airways charter for the last leg to Tehran.

Registration: N819AX
Type: Boeing 777-200ER
Operator: Omni Air International
Transponder (ICAO 24-bit): ab2ae1
Left the US from: AEX Alexandria, USA
Handed the deportees over at: DIA Doha, Qatar
Distance on the removal legs: 15,313 km
Time on the removal legs: 19h 49m
Closest approach to Iran: 193 km, from Persian Gulf International Airport

What the reporting says: Reported as departing the ICE staging facility at Alexandria, Louisiana with 54 Iranian nationals, refuelling in Puerto Rico and stopping in Cairo before Doha, where the deportees were moved onto a charter operated by the state-owned Qatar Airways.

The track

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Every leg on record

Date (UTC)	Leg	Distance	Time	Status
September 29, 202516:20 UTC → 18:34 UTC	BWI Baltimore, USA→ AEX Alexandria, USA	1,735 km	2h 14m	Positioning
September 30, 202503:23 UTC → 06:58 UTC	AEX Alexandria, USA→ SJU San Juan, Puerto Rico	3,021 km	3h 34m	Removal leg (reported)
September 30, 202509:46 UTC → 02:01 UTC (Oct 1)	SJU San Juan, Puerto Rico→ DIA Doha, Qatar	12,292 km	16h 15m	Removal leg (reported)
No signal for 4h 02m — last seen over open water, back at 37,000 ft over open water.
No signal for 2h 45m — last seen over Egypt, back at 16,150 ft near Capital International Airport, Egypt.
No signal for 1h 09m — last seen over Saudi Arabia, back at 37,125 ft over Saudi Arabia.
Handover at Doha, Qatar — the deportees were moved onto a Qatar Airways charter for the flight to Tehran, around 11:00 local time on October 1. That aircraft is not this one, and that leg is not in this table: it comes from the reporting, not from ADS-B.

The Doha stop was not at Hamad International, which handles the city's commercial traffic. The 777 parked at Doha International (OTBD), the older airport a few kilometres to the north-west, and sat there for two hours and 49 minutes before leaving empty.

After the handover, it left Doha International Airport at 04:50 UTC on October 1, 2025 via Capital International Airport and Queen Alia International Airport, and was back on US soil at Alexandria International Airport on October 2, 2025.

On September 29, 2025, ERO conducted the first-ever chartered removal flight to Tehran, Iran for the removal of 54 Iranian nationals. This mission involved an ICE Air charter flight landing in Doha, Qatar, where the Iranians were transferred to a Qatar Airways plane for onward travel to Tehran, Iran.

ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations, internal email, October 7, 2025, subject "Next Iran Charter" (released in the FOIA set, page 152, unredacted)

Documented · from the released paperwork

The leg into Iran: named in the permit request

This is the one leg into Iran that does not have to be inferred. The landing-permit request Qatar Airways filed with Iran’s civil aviation authority is in the FOIA release, and the redactor left most of it intact.

Operator: Qatar Airways
Aircraft named: A7-BCJ, A7-BCV, A7-BCQ — “or substitute”
Type: Boeing 787-8
Callsign, return leg: QTR7313
Route: Doha International to Imam Khomeini in Tehran, returning to Hamad International
Scheduled: leaving Tehran at 06:35 UTC and back in Doha at 08:40 UTC on October 1

Qatar Airways asked ICE for the US aircraft's parking stand at Doha International because it planned a "tail to tail pax transfer" - the deportees walked from one aircraft to the other on the ramp. On the day, ICE told Qatar Airways the American charter was running about two hours late and the Qatari schedule moved with it.

Which of them actually flew

None of the three named aircraft can be seen at Tehran, and no Qatar Airways 787 came within 330 km of it that day. But one of the three did fly north into Iran and come back. A7-BCJ, the first aircraft on the permit, flew a five-hour round trip out of Doha that morning under the callsign QTR3250.

A7-BCJ was on the apron at Doha International directly alongside N819AX in the early hours of October 1, the two aircraft a few dozen metres apart - the "tail to tail" arrangement the emails describe.

Replay of Doha International Airport at 02:15 UTC on 1 October 2025, showing two aircraft parked a few dozen metres apart on the same apron: A7-BCJ, a Boeing 787-8, and N819AX, a Boeing 777-200, both stationary at 0 knots. — Doha International Airport, 02:15 UTC on October 1, 2025. A7-BCJ (callsign QTR3250) and N819AX (callsign OAE3657) parked a few dozen metres apart on the same apron, both showing 0 knots. N819AX had landed 14 minutes earlier with 54 Iranian nationals aboard. Three hours later A7-BCJ flew north into Iran. Historical replay of public ADS-B data, ADS-B Exchange.

Time (UTC)	October 1, 2025
04:50Z	N819AX leaves Doha International, empty, for Amman
05:19Z	A7-BCJ lifts off from Doha International and turns north
05:59Z	last position: 38,000 ft, 39 km north of Shiraz, over central Iran
--	three hours and twenty-five minutes with no position at all
09:28Z	reappears at 39,000 ft in almost the same place, now heading south
10:20Z	back on the ground at Doha International
12:33Z	repositions the short hop to Hamad International

The 3h 25m with no position

The gap is not explained by a lack of receivers. While A7-BCJ was silent at 38,000 ft, three other aircraft were being tracked around Tehran in the same hours - one of them down to 4,600 ft, which is far harder to receive than an aircraft at cruise. An aircraft that high is normally picked up hundreds of kilometres away.

What that leaves. The aircraft is identified; the landing at Tehran itself is not. Nothing was received between Shiraz and Shiraz, so the Tehran portion rests on the permit request, the reporting, and a five-hour round trip out of Doha with a hole in the middle of exactly the right shape.

Qatar Airways Network Operations, landing-permit request to the Civil Aviation Authority of the Islamic Republic of Iran, forwarded to ICE. FOIA release page 168.

The other two aircraft: N207AX · N351AX · all three flights

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