Iowa First Check

Tracking Zach Lahn's flights, addresses, and voting record — against his own "Iowa First" platform · status: active candidate, Iowa governor

Subject

Zach Lahn (R)

For comparison

Rob Sand (D)

Zach Lahn wants Iowans to trust him with the governor's office, running on an "Iowa First" platform. But public records show a Kansas voting history running through 2022, and Iowa voter registration dating only to October 17, 2024 — 17 days inside the two-year residency window required to run. So how much of Zach Lahn's own life has actually been lived in Iowa? This page tracks that question with public records: his plane's flights, his documented addresses over time, his voting history, and his campaign travel. The evidence is below — judge it for yourself.

“We'd be in Iowa as much as humanly possible.”

— Zach Lahn, May 14, 2026, on what he'd do about the travel if elected governor (Des Moines Register)

Editor's Note: We don't know what this means either, since it's humanly possible to be in Iowa anywhere between 0% and 100% of the time. It does seem pretty dumb to not just ask the governor to be in Iowa full-time?

How this page works: an automated compilation of public records — ADS-B flight data (OpenSky Network), public court citations, and public political/economic data. It shows the plane moved — it cannot show who was on board. It shows documented addresses at specific moments — not a formal domicile ruling. Every figure is sourced; where real data isn't available yet, the page says so rather than estimating. Independent project, not affiliated with any campaign, the aircraft's owner/operator, or any data provider named below.

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Event data pulled from Zach Lahn's own campaign site (zachlahn.com/events), where a banner reads "Zach Lahn's 99 County Statewide Tour Continues!" directly above three separate "More events coming very soon!" placeholders. As of July 6, 2026, no events were actually listed. For comparison, Rob Sand's campaign events page (mobilize.us/robsandia) listed dozens of events over that same period.

Gut CheckWould you vote for this candidate?

Exhibit AThe plane

Overview

Where it's landed

Marker size = number of flights to/from that airport.

Flight activity

Flights by month

Nights parked by state

Where it's parked overnight

Recent flights

Flights show a clickable map only within ~30 days of being logged — that's a hard limit of the free flight-tracking data source, not a gap in the record.

Exhibit BThe address

Documented residency trail

Traffic citations

Included only for the addresses they document at each date — not for the violations themselves. All citations below have since been resolved.

Voter registration & residency

Exhibit CHis own words

Exhibit DThe money