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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-BTT2023-04-05404overlap OWENS-011 - Wilmington DE (audited_accurate, audit: accurate)
SU-BTT2023-04-07404overlap OWENS-011 - Wilmington DE (audited_accurate, audit: accurate)

Where this page fits

The row above this log came back confirmed on free data — SU-BTT closing to 1.63 kilometres of Wilmington after departing Spirit of St. Louis — so what is listed here are the empty neighbouring dates, and the row page carries the trace itself, indexed with the rest on the overlap index. The confirmation sharpens the counterargument rather than the accusation: Wilmington is the outbound customs stop, twenty-one appearances and never once inbound, so a precisely-placed aircraft here is precisely placed at a fuel stop — and being willing to publish the result that weakens the claim is the same standard applied to the inconclusive ATF fragment comparison and to the contradictions catalogued in Other. For the rest of that run, overlap recovery has every one of the 69 testable pairs with its verdict, and what a 403 actually means has the retraction that made the method trustworthy.