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

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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-BTT2024-04-14404overlap OWENS-055 - Omaha NE (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate)
SU-BTT2024-04-15404overlap OWENS-055 - Omaha NE (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate)
SU-BTT2024-04-16404overlap OWENS-055 - Omaha NE (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate)

Where this page fits

This gap report backs row OWENS-055 with three UTC days of lookups that returned nothing for SU-BTT, and it is published rather than buried because an unretrievable claim and a failed claim are different things, a distinction the whole flight data recovery effort turns on. The reason a volunteer network is all we have is that the primary record never came out: foreign flight leads rest on public ADS-B alone, the NCTC's foreign-ties inquiry was reportedly stopped, and proposed Law 2 names these tails specifically so that Congress would have to explain them. The page worth clicking next is Overlap Recovery, where all 69 testable aircraft-and-date pairs were pulled against both free daily archives: twenty-three came back with a primary trace, and the commercial archives that hold the rest are the ones behind a paywall, which is itself part of how this investigation gets its data.