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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.

TailUTC dateHTTPWhy we looked
SU-BTT2023-04-19404overlap OWENS-013 - Wilmington DE (audited_accurate, audit: accurate)

Where this page fits

The row above came back confirmed with SU-BTT actually on the ground at Wilmington, 0.56 kilometres from the field, after a leg out of Kansas — so this log is the surrounding empty dates rather than the finding, and the row page has the trace, with the field's outbound-only record and the Wichita service centre explaining both ends of the leg. A ground fix is the strongest thing free ADS-B can give and it still does not open the cabin door: no FBO log, crew list or badge record has been produced for any leg by anyone, which is why the pages that matter most in the wider case are the ones with a document attached — the DoD purchase order for miniaturized demolition charges, the ATF fragment report, the sealed-warrant record. The equivalent on the aircraft side would be a ramp record, and government flight records sets out which of those download freely today and which have to be prised out by FOIA or a state records request, with every row's status tracked on the overlap index.