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

Generated 2026-08-24T16:03:53.110Z 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-BND2023-05-02404overlap OWENS-014 - St. Louis MO (audited_accurate, audit: accurate)
SU-BND2023-05-04404overlap OWENS-014 - St. Louis MO (audited_accurate, audit: accurate)

Where this page fits

This gap list belongs to one of the rows that survived the check — OWENS-014 put SU-BND within 6.7 km of St Louis Downtown on 3 May 2023 — and the 404s recorded here are for the adjacent days, which the free archives simply did not hold, as the St. Louis record and the overlap index both flag. A confirmed aircraft position is still only half a pairing, which is why the human side of this investigation runs through Erika Kirk's reportedly erased flight logs, the withheld foreign flight records and the foreign-nexus review Joe Kent says was stopped rather than through ADS-B at all. The page to read next is Erika Kirk's own invitation to check the logs — she said on camera to go through them, and researchers report the N102DZ history was pulled from FlightRadar24 in May 2026.