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

Generated 2026-08-24T16:03:53.124Z 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-BTT2025-06-17404overlap OWENS-036 - Omaha / Lincoln NE (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate)
SU-BTT2025-06-19404overlap OWENS-036 - Omaha / Lincoln NE (audited_inaccurate, audit: inaccurate)

Where this page fits​

This gap list belongs to OWENS-036, one of the twelve rows the archives actually refuted — SU-BTT was tracked on 18 June 2025 and it was not at Omaha — so the empty lookups here sit beside a positive answer rather than instead of one, and the register records both. Publishing misses next to hits is the standard this investigation asks of the government and rarely gets: the foreign-nexus review reportedly ordered stopped, the warrants sealed into 2026 and the ATF comparison that came back inconclusive are all places where the negative result was the one that mattered. Overlap recovery is the page to read next: it tested every checkable aircraft-and-date pair, and four of the twelve refutations exist only because a backup network held a trace the primary archive did not.