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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-BTT2024-04-24404overlap OWENS-026 - Provo UT (audited_accurate, audit: accurate); overlap SITE-004 - Salt Lake City (event) / Provo (aircraft) UT (audited_accurate, audit: accurate)

Where this page fits​

This is the gap file for row OWENS-026, one of the rows the audit marked correct, and the volunteer archive still returned nothing for the surrounding days, which is a useful reminder that absence in a free network says nothing about whether the aircraft flew. The record that would settle it is commercial or governmental and neither is public: the deep history sits behind paid archives, government sources have to be requested, and the proposed disclosure laws exist because the foreign-nexus material has stayed withheld. Next, read 23 April 2024, Salt Lake City: on the same day this row covers, SU-BTT landed at Provo at 12:13 pm while Charlie Kirk was 45 miles north at the University of Utah, a same-day, same-region pairing the audit did not dissolve, though a confirmed airframe position still places no person aboard.