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

Generated 2026-08-24T16:03:53.120Z 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-BTT2024-03-09404overlap OWENS-053 - St. Louis MO (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate)
SU-BTT2024-03-10404overlap OWENS-053 - St. Louis MO (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate)
SU-BTT2024-03-11404overlap OWENS-053 - St. Louis MO (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate)

Where this page fits

Three covered dates and no trace of SU-BTT is what this page records for OWENS-053, and the overlap index files it untested — the free archives were serving normally, so the silence belongs to the airframe rather than the network, and the St. Louis record holds the visits that were real. Twenty-two of the eighty-five rows checked in the August 2026 run landed exactly here, a bigger number than either side of this argument usually admits, and the reason the cover-up section, the Israel thread and the proposed disclosure laws all lean on records nobody has yet produced. For the fix, read the commercial flight-data APIs page: Flightradar24 and FlightAware hold the deep history the volunteer networks do not, including the whole 2022 window this spreadsheet starts in, and it prices what settling the question would actually cost.