N313P-N4476S

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

Background
According to Amnesty International (AI), 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. 

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

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.