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

Generated 2026-08-24T16:03:53.111Z 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-BND2023-06-24404overlap OWENS-052 - Wilmington DE (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate)
SU-BND2023-06-25404overlap OWENS-052 - Wilmington DE (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate)
SU-BND2023-06-26404overlap OWENS-052 - Wilmington DE (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate)

Where this page fits

These lookups sit under OWENS-052, where 25 June 2023 has no archive coverage at all and the refutation therefore rests on the day before — SU-BND at Cairo West and Helwan, held by the backup network only, nowhere near Delaware, as the overlap index records. The row says plainly that it does not rest on the gap, and that plainness is the point: this investigation has already had to retract a removal claim built on a refusal, a lesson that applies equally to foreign flight records withheld and filings sealed until 2026. Wilmington is the hook: it is the most-visited airport in the entire fleet record, appearing on the outbound leg only, twenty-one times in three years, never once inbound.