Claimed flights we could NOT retrieve a primary ADS-B trace for
Generated 2026-08-24T16:03:53.118Z 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.
| Tail | UTC date | HTTP | Why we looked |
|---|---|---|---|
| SU-BTT | 2023-04-15 | 404 | overlap OWENS-012 - Wichita KS (audited_accurate, audit: accurate) |
Where this page fits
This is the row where the free archives overturned the paid audit rather than agreeing with it — the audit marked Wichita correct, the trace puts SU-BTT finishing its day near Topeka, roughly 215 kilometres away, and the row page carries the correction in full, with the Wichita field record supplying the maintenance-shop explanation for why the field is in the sheet at all. Publishing a result that contradicts the source you have been relying on is the point of doing the work, and this case is short of it — the drifting overlap totals, the unauthenticated kill-me screenshots, and the contradictions logged in Other all persist because corrections rarely travel as far as claims. Note also what the correction is not: a misattribution, not an invention — the jet really was in Kansas that day, just at the wrong field — which is the difference the window definition exists to police and the 73 overlaps reconstruction tallies row by row.