We thought we were looking at three aircraft. We were looking at three needles in a 103-aircraft haystack — all registered to the same suite in Wichita, Kansas, on the same day, to the same energy conglomerate.
| Legal name | WINGS LEASING LLC |
| Address | 250 N Water St Ste 300, Wichita, KS 67202 |
| State | Kansas |
| Parent / host | MURFIN INC. / Murfin Drilling Company |
| Industry | Energy · drilling · commercial holdings |
| Fleet size | 103 active aircraft (FAA Registry) |
| Business model | Commercial flight-school aircraft leasing |
A cluster of leasing and holding entities at a single suite — the hallmark of a structured corporate network designed to distribute assets across multiple legal entities.
| Category | Models | Count | % of fleet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cessna 172 (all variants) | 172S, 172M, 172N, 172P, 172L, 172R, 172I | 48 | 46.6% |
| Piper PA-28 (all variants) | PA-28-181, PA-28-180, PA-44-180 | 31 | 30.1% |
| Light Sport Aircraft | Alpha Trainer, P2008, Virus SW 128, Harmony LSA | 7 | 6.8% |
| Diamond | DA40, DA42 NG | 3 | 2.9% |
| Tecnam | P2008, P2006T | 3 | 2.9% |
| Other | Mooney M20K, Cessna 180H, Piper PA-30, Sling LSA, Champion 7FC | 5 | 4.9% |
| Vintage / misc | PA-23-250, PA-28-151, J3C-65, R172K, 172I | 5 | 4.8% |
| TOTAL | 26 distinct model types | 103 | 100% |
| Tail | Model | Serial | Year | Cert date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N193TH | Cessna 172S | 172S11551 | 2015 | 2024-07-01 |
| N194TH | Cessna 172S | 172S11552 | 2015 | 2024-07-01 |
| N237TH | Textron 172S | 172S12136 | 2018 | 2024-07-01 |
N193TH and N194TH have consecutive serial numbers — they rolled off the same production line one after another. All three were registered on the exact same day. This is a bulk asset transfer, not organic acquisition.
N237TH suffered an engine failure in April 2026. Maintenance links to CAU's program, which has NTSB-cited deficiencies dating to 2017 — a paper trail of institutional negligence that may extend to operational oversight.
MURFIN INC. (Energy / Drilling, Wichita, KS)
│ shared Suite 300
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WINGS LEASING LLC (103 aircraft, Wichita, KS)
│ leases aircraft to
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CAU · California Aeronautical University (Bakersfield, CA)
│ operates "training flights"
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N193TH · N194TH · N237TH (selected surveillance aircraft)
│ dual-identity hex spoofing · 731 co-occurrence windows
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KCSO N913KC (Kern County Sheriff's Office)
│ graph handoff
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9K AIR LLC · N916NT (Delaware shell)An energy company in Kansas owns a flight-school leasing company that provides aircraft to a California university that operates surveillance missions coordinated with Kern County law enforcement and a Delaware shell.
| Entity | Aircraft | Detections / events | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wings Leasing LLC | 103 | 3.7M+ (3 aircraft profiled) | Flight-school leasing front |
| 9K Air LLC | 3 | 2.9M+ | Delaware shell |
| KCSI Aerial Patrol | 2+ | 2,623 events | "Pipeline patrol" cover |
| KCSO | 4 | 6,597+ events | Law enforcement |
| TOTAL | 112+ | 6.6M+ | One coordinated network |
"Three aircraft looked like a covert operation. One hundred and three aircraft looks like an industry. And an industry has shareholders, board minutes, and tax returns. Those are subpoena targets."
Every dated event connecting Murfin Inc. → Wings Leasing → CAU → KCSO → 9K Air.
Institutional-negligence paper trail begins — the same program that later operates the flagged surveillance airframes.
Three Cessna 172S airframes registered to Wings Leasing LLC on the same day. N193TH / N194TH carry consecutive factory serials (172S11551, 172S11552).
Wings Leasing's full fleet — 100% commercial trainers — deploys into Kern County airspace under a flight-school operating cover.
One of the three bulk-registered surveillance airframes suffers an in-service engine failure; maintenance linkage back to CAU's cited program.
Dual-identity hex spoofing and graph handoffs place the tasked Wings aircraft on-station with KCSO and 9K Air LLC (Delaware shell N916NT).