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

Generated 2026-08-24T16:03:53.122Z 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-BTT2024-07-04404overlap OWENS-059 - Wichita KS (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate)
SU-BTT2024-07-05404overlap OWENS-059 - Wichita KS (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate)
SU-BTT2024-07-06404overlap OWENS-059 - Wichita KS (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate)

Where this page fits​

These empty results sit under row OWENS-059, a Wichita claim the auditor answered in three words, still in Egypt, and they are recorded because an unchecked claim and a checked-and-failed claim have to stay apart if the count is to mean anything. Wichita has the plainest non-sinister explanation of any field in the record, since it is the Air Capital of the World and home to an FAA Part 145 Dassault Falcon service centre, the kind of ordinary fact that rarely survives contact with a viral thread, an aggregator rewrite, an AI assistant asked to summarise it, or the press that carried the totals. Next, the Wichita arrival log: repeated Falcon 7X visits between 2022 and 2025 to the one American airport with a factory-authorised shop for that exact aircraft type, a coincidence the following claim has to explain and has not, any more than it explains why the flights continued after he died.