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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-BTT2024-04-27404overlap OWENS-027 - Wilmington DE (audited_accurate, audit: accurate)
SU-BTT2024-04-29404day after claimed departure from Provo (KPVU); overlap OWENS-027 - Wilmington DE (audited_accurate, audit: accurate)

Where this page fits​

The empty lookups here belong to row OWENS-027, an outbound Wilmington customs stop the audit marked accurate, and they are published for the same reason every gap file in the overlap directory is: a claim nobody could check is not a claim that failed. Wilmington appears on the outbound leg only, twenty-one times across three years and never inbound, which argues for a customs function rather than a tasking, and that counterweight deserves the same prominence as the claims that foreign flight records were withheld, that foreign leads were shut down, and that a foreign service was involved at all. The next click is the Cairo home-field page, because every leg in the record begins and ends in Egypt and the rotation kept running after Charlie Kirk died, a fact that cuts against the following claim and is published here anyway, unlike in the numbers that travelled through the press or through the assistants people asked instead.