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

Generated 2026-08-24T16:03:53.114Z 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-BND2025-09-11404overlap EXTRA-006 - Provo UT (audited_accurate, audit: accurate); overlap SITE-006 - Orem (event) / Provo (aircraft) UT (audited_accurate, audit: accurate)

Where this page fits​

This gap file belongs to EXTRA-006, the 10 September Provo row for SU-BND — an aircraft that did not fly that day, which is the exact circumstance a volunteer ADS-B network is least able to record, and the register marks it accordingly. A parked airframe with an intermittent transponder produces silence in an archive and a claim on X at the same time, and separating those two is the same job the site does on the reported remote deletion of witness videos and the county's "no bodycam footage" answer — plausible, unproven, and worth documenting either way, which is also the argument of what a 403 actually means. The transponder claim itself, reported as coming on about twenty-one minutes before the shot and powering down an hour after, is set out with its ordinary explanations intact on 10 September 2025 — Orem.