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Claimed flights we could NOT retrieve a primary ADS-B trace for

Generated 2026-08-24T16:03:53.117Z by site/docs/Planes/following/apis/public_open_source/code/pull_all.js.

Source tried: adsb.lol globe history — https://adsb.lol/globe_history/YYYY/MM/DD/traces/<hh>/trace_full_<hex>.json

This is the only free, no-account source of historical ADS-B tracks we have found. It serves only what its volunteer feeder network actually received.

WHAT AN EMPTY RESULT DOES AND DOES NOT MEAN. A 404 here means adsb.lol holds no trace for that airframe on that UTC day. It does not establish that the aircraft did not fly, and it does not establish that a transponder was switched off. The ordinary explanations come first: the aircraft was parked and silent, it flew outside volunteer receiver coverage (most of the Atlantic, most of North Africa, much of the rural US at low altitude), or the claimed date is simply wrong. Several of the rows below are already recorded in overlaps.csv as audited inaccurate.

The claim is what is listed. The absence is what we found. Neither is proof.

TailUTC dateHTTPWhy we looked
SU-BTT2023-02-26404overlap OWENS-046 - St. Louis MO (audited_partial, audit: partial)

Where this page fits​

This gap log sits under one of the rows that actually came back — free ADS-B put SU-BTT within 3.1 kilometres of Spirit of St. Louis on the claimed date, both archives agreeing — so the entries above are the surrounding dates that stayed empty, not the row itself, and the row page carries the confirmed trace alongside the St. Louis field record. A confirmed aircraft is still only an aircraft: no manifest, crew list or FBO log has been produced for any leg of any of these flights, and Erika Kirk's flight logs are reported erased, so nothing here places a person aboard — the same limit that separates the foreign phones logged at UVU from an identified user and the Israel main-suspect case from a named actor. The full run is overlap recovery — 69 testable aircraft-and-date pairs pulled against both free daily archives, twenty-three landing on a primary trace for the first time, indexed row by row from the overlap dates page.