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

Generated 2026-08-24T16:03:53.113Z 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-BND2025-05-24404day after claimed departure from Le Bourget (LFPB); overlap OWENS-035 - Provo UT (audited_accurate, audit: accurate); overlap OWENS-065 - Provo UT (audited_accurate, audit: accurate)

Where this page fits

The gap list for OWENS-065 is the gap list for a row that should not exist separately: it duplicates OWENS-035, the same 23 May 2025 Provo claim about SU-BND, entered twice on the same sheet. Duplication inflates a count without falsifying a single row, which is why the arithmetic behind a headline deserves the scrutiny this site gives the ATF comparison that could neither identify nor exclude the rifle or the sealed evidence calendar — a number people repeat is a claim like any other. Three such pairs run through the sheet and the overlap index names all three — OWENS-031/061 and OWENS-033/063 at Wichita, this pair at Provo — with the full line-by-line reconstruction on the 73 overlaps.