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Iowa Hawkeyes Aircraft Documented Around Big Ten Media Days 2025

N497NM was tied to Big Ten Media Days 2025 in the trip record for Jul 22, 2025-Jul 24, 2025.

Jul 23, 2025N497NM
Estimated route, no live track
Complete outing
  1. 1Iowa City, IALas Vegas, NVKIOW → KLASJul 23, 20255:48 PM8:50 PMEDT3h 2mStats selected23h 47m on ground
  2. 2Las Vegas, NVIowa City, IAKLAS → KIOWJul 24, 20258:37 PM11:21 PMEDT2h 44m

The documented event record links N497NM to Big Ten Media Days 2025, with the flight arriving at Iowa City, IA around the event window. The article is limited to the sourced event context and the ADS-B route; it does not identify who was aboard.

Selected flight record
Leg 1 of 2
Route
KIOW → KLAS
Departure
Jul 23, 2025, 5:48 PM ET
Arrival
Jul 23, 2025, 8:50 PM ET
Airborne
3h 2m
Track
Altitude
Cruise 40,000 ft · Max 41,025 ft
Speed
Avg 366 kt · Max 514 kt
Samples
4,028
Sources & methodology

Sources: JetSweep calendar event record for big ten media days 2025; ADS-B route KIOW-KIOW.

Aircraft & ownership
Aircraft
Tail
N497NM
FAA type
C56X · Cessna Citation Excel / XLS family
Group
College FB
Registry
United States
Attribution
Registered owner
Black Tail
current registry · not dated to this flight
Operator
Jet Air Inc.part 135
certificate JAFA · observed 2025-04-28 and 2025-10-06, not on this date
Program tie
BLACK TAIL LLC — confirmed prior serviceevidence predates this flight
funnel confirmed service · 1 confirmed flight_reason_labels for iowa on BLACK TAIL LLC (1 documented, 1 approved/published) across 1 tail(s): N497NM; first 2025-07-25, latest 20
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