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.
| Tail | UTC date | HTTP | Why we looked |
|---|---|---|---|
| SU-BTT | 2024-08-16 | 404 | overlap OWENS-029 - Omaha / Lincoln NE (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate) |
| SU-BTT | 2024-08-17 | 404 | overlap OWENS-029 - Omaha / Lincoln NE (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate) |
| SU-BTT | 2024-08-18 | 404 | overlap OWENS-029 - Omaha / Lincoln NE (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate) |
Where this page fits
These lookups belong to row OWENS-029, which the audit calls a year-shifted copy of a real August 2025 rotation, so the archive was queried for a date the aircraft was almost certainly not flying, and the resulting silence is a coverage fact and nothing more, best read alongside the Lincoln field record. The distinction matters far beyond aircraft, because this case is full of claims where absence was read as proof, from a body camera that stopped recording on the roof to footage a county says it searched for and could not find, and the discipline separating a missing record from a destroyed one has to be applied identically to the flight archives and to the cover-up claims. The real August rotation is on 17 August 2025, Omaha and Lincoln, audited partially accurate, which is the more interesting verdict of the two because a partial hit is where the compilers' method and the primary record actually disagree, and it sits inside the same overlap index tested by the same two free archives.