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

Generated 2026-08-24T16:03:53.121Z 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-BTT2024-04-02404overlap OWENS-024 - Wichita / Lawrence KS (audited_partial, audit: partial); overlap SITE-003 - Lawrence (event) / Wichita (aircraft) KS (audited_partial, audit: partial)
SU-BTT2024-04-04404overlap OWENS-024 - Wichita / Lawrence KS (audited_partial, audit: partial); overlap SITE-003 - Lawrence (event) / Wichita (aircraft) KS (audited_partial, audit: partial)

Where this page fits

The lookups on this page belong to the Lawrence pairing, where the free archives did in the end hold the day: on 3 April 2024 SU-BTT ran east across Missouri and landed 1.48 km from Wilmington, Delaware, with a closest approach to Wichita of 1,852.96 km — so the row is refuted on position rather than on silence, as the overlap index records. Refuting a claim on a tracked position is the only kind of refutation this site accepts, for the same reason the ATF fragment result, the disputed impact second and the day-of chronology reward careful reading: the strength of a claim is the strength of what was actually measured. The next page is 3 April 2024 — Wichita / Lawrence, the spreadsheet's own version of the same date, which the audit called partially accurate and the archives call a real US day at the wrong field.