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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-BTT2023-03-14404overlap OWENS-047 - Omaha NE (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate)
SU-BTT2023-03-15404overlap OWENS-047 - Omaha NE (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate)
SU-BTT2023-03-16404overlap OWENS-047 - Omaha NE (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate)

Where this page fits​

Omaha is the first row in this batch where the archives genuinely cover the date and still heard nothing from SU-BTT — a different result from the 404s that dominate 2022 — and the row page states plainly that silence from a volunteer receiver network is not a refutation, which is how the overlap index files it. Getting that right is the whole reason this investigation runs a control test before publishing, a habit built after a claim on this site had to be withdrawn — see what a 403 actually means — and it is the standard the rest of the case would benefit from applying to the missing bodycam footage, the videos reported deleted from witness phones, and the sealed evidence catalogue. Omaha itself has an unglamorous explanation waiting on the Omaha airport page: six arrivals, every one followed within twenty minutes by a hop to Lincoln, where Duncan Aviation has held the Egyptian maintenance account since 1999.