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

Generated 2026-08-24T16:03:53.123Z 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-BTT2025-01-11404overlap OWENS-031 - Wichita KS (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate); overlap OWENS-061 - Wichita KS (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate)
SU-BTT2025-01-12404overlap OWENS-031 - Wichita KS (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate); overlap OWENS-061 - Wichita KS (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate)
SU-BTT2025-01-13404overlap OWENS-031 - Wichita KS (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate); overlap OWENS-061 - Wichita KS (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate)

Where this page fits​

These lookups duplicate the ones filed under row OWENS-031, because the sheet carried the same 12 January 2025 Wichita claim twice, and both copies were tested against the same free archives with the same empty result, which proves nothing about the aircraft in either direction. Keeping both copies visible is deliberate, because a reader checking a public number needs to see where it was padded, and that habit is the difference between this and the parts of the record where nobody can now reconstruct what was removed, such as the withheld foreign-nexus material, the sealed evidence, the withheld HD campus footage and the unreleased surrender video. The next page is Overlap Recovery, where all 69 testable aircraft-and-date pairs from this sheet were pulled against both free daily archives and the report names which ones came back, rather than asserting a total or letting an assistant summarise it.