A Boeing jet spotted on the general aviation side of Salt Lake City International Airport last week that appeared to be carrying people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was back in Utah on Monday — with the same itinerary.

The Eastern Air Express jet, a Boeing 737-800, arrived at Salt Lake City’s airport from Mesa Gateway Airport, near Phoenix, around 9:45 a.m. Monday, and took off an hour later, according to records kept by ADS-B Exchange, a website that tracks flights across the country.

The jet had the same tail number as the plane that sat at the airport for nearly two hours on March 23, when a Salt Lake Tribune photographer captured images of people in handcuffs and ankle restraints walking up a staircase to board the plane.

Workers in plainclothes, not labeled with the name of any agency, removed people from four white vans with U.S. government license plates.

A spokesperson for ICE did not immediately return a request for confirmation that Monday’s flight or the one last week was operated by the agency. A spokesperson for the airport had no comment Tuesday; last week, the spokesperson said the city’s Department of Airports does not control the activities on the airport’s east side, where the plane was parked on March 23.

The plane traveled to the same locations Monday that it did last week, according to ADS-B Exchange: first to the Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, California, then to El Paso, Texas.

El Paso, at the southwestern tip of Texas, is home to two ICE detention facilities, according to the agency’s website. One is Camp East Montana, which The Washington Post reported had held as many as 3,000 people detained by ICE in January, though half that number were there in early March.

Monday’s flight now makes three trips by this plane from Salt Lake City to Texas locations with ICE detention facilities in the last month. On March 19, according to the exchange, the same plane flew from Salt Lake City to Harlingen, Texas, on the state’s far southern tip. ICE’s website lists seven detention centers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, run out of the agency’s Harlingen field office.

The plane, which can carry up to 189 passengers, is operated by Eastern Air Express, a charter airline based in Kansas City, Missouri. In the last year, Eastern has received $43.5 million in a contract with the Department of Defense, according to a contract database. The contract is with the defense department’s U.S. Transportation Command.

The plane that touched down Monday in Salt Lake City isn’t the only Eastern Air Express plane to have visited Utah in the last week. Last Thursday, another of the airline’s Boeing 737-800’s flew from Mesa to Salt Lake City to Harlingen, according to ADS-B Exchange.

In January, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey demanded that Eastern and another private airline stop providing flights to transport people detained by ICE, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette reported. WFYI, the public radio station in Indianapolis, reported in October that Eastern was running flights for ICE in Indiana.

According to Human Rights First, whose ICE Flight Monitor compiles data on U.S. immigration-related air traffic, Salt Lake City’s airport saw 99 such flights in all of 2025 and 25 in the first two months of 2026.

The nonprofit charts ICE deportation flights, domestic travel between detention centers, military flights for immigration enforcement, flights to offshore detention in Guantánamo, and deportation flights run by the Mexican and Panamanian governments.