I found a plane on Jetphotos. I would've liked to check her routes via the registration code but another aircraft was displayed on ads-b. If I search via HEX number, the right routes are shown (I checked it on another site), but the aircraft profile is also different: it contains the data of a helicopter that crashed in 2017. Any ideas? Does the owner/operator want to hide the plane from others? How can they do that?
#Questions about a mysterious plane
old lodge
tribal cradle
Hi and welcome! Over time, registration numbers and 24-bit addresses can be cancelled and then re-used – it sounds like both of those are what's happening here.
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Searching for the registration number checks the tar1090 database¹ to determine what 24-bit address the database shows as linked to that registration number and then loads that 24-bit address. In this case, you're seeing an aircraft that previously used that registration number because this database entry has an old relationship for this pair
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Searching for the current 24-bit address is showing the flight data tracks for the current aircraft (because it is actively broadcasting that address) but the aircraft profile for the old helicopter (because it previously had that 24-bit address before the mishap). The profile is determined in a similar but reverse order as above, by displaying the registration number that the tar1090 database shows as linked to that 24-bit address
