Tommy Carstensen Epstein Flight Logs Explorer

PostedAugust 5, 2026

UpdatedSeptember 6, 2026

ByEpsteinWiki

The Epstein Flight Logs Explorer created by Tommy Carstensen brings several sets of Epstein related aviation records into one searchable interface. Researchers can examine flights, passengers, airports, aircraft, routes, dates, and the number of sources supporting individual entries.

The explorer is a valuable research index. It is not a complete record of every flight or every passenger. It also does not prove that a named passenger knew about, witnessed, or participated in Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.

Snapshot

Tool name: Flight Logs

Creator: Tommy Carstensen

Primary function: Search and compare Epstein related flight records

Records displayed when reviewed: 5,835 flights and 14,447 passenger records

Identified passengers displayed: 296

Date range displayed: April 25, 1991 through September 5, 2019

Private aircraft displayed: Eight

Airports displayed: 319

Primary evidence: Pilot logbooks, Federal Aviation Administration records, customs records, commercial bookings, and curated records

Download options: JSON and CSV

What Is The Epstein Flight Logs Explorer?

The explorer converts scattered aviation records into a unified database. It combines private aircraft flight logs and Federal Aviation Administration records with commercial airline bookings and border crossing records.

The page provides a world map, annual activity views, passenger counts, airport rankings, aircraft statistics, search filters, downloadable data, source notes, and comparisons between different flight log versions.

Related tools on the same site examine commercial bookings, aircraft and operators, passenger relationships, airports, routes, border crossings, and handwritten records.

What The Database Contains

When reviewed, the explorer reported 5,835 documented flights, 14,447 passenger records, 296 identified passengers, 319 airports, and 1,058 flights confirmed by more than one source.

These totals combine different kinds of records. A flight can appear through a handwritten pilot log, a structured spreadsheet, a customs record, an airline booking, or another curated source.

The totals may change as the project corrects names, merges duplicate records, or adds newly processed documents. Researchers should record the date when citing statistics from the live database.

How To Search The Flight Records

The flight table can be filtered by passenger, date range, airport, aircraft, source, minimum passenger count, and whether Epstein appears in the record.

Each result can display the date, aircraft, route, passengers, and source. This allows researchers to narrow a large collection to a specific person, airport, aircraft, or period.

The passenger search is especially useful for locating name variants and initials. However, researchers must inspect the underlying evidence before treating a suggested identity as confirmed.

The Interactive Flight Map

The map draws documented routes between airports. Wider arcs represent routes with more recorded flights. Airport circles become larger as the number of flights connected to them increases.

Users can select an airport to filter the flight table. This is useful for examining traffic connected to Palm Beach, Teterboro, Saint Thomas, Paris, Santa Fe, and other locations associated with Epstein’s travel.

The map shows aggregate route activity. It does not display passenger names on the map itself. A route line also does not establish what happened at either destination.

Flights By Year

The annual views help researchers compare the documented travel network over time. The explorer warns that yearly totals reflect surviving route documentation, not the full amount of travel that occurred.

Private aircraft logbooks provide dense coverage through 2006. Commercial airline records begin later. The period from 2008 through 2011 appears much thinner because the surviving source types changed.

A drop in recorded flights must not be interpreted as proof that travel stopped. Customs records and other sources may document travel that does not appear in a passenger logbook.

Primary Handwritten Flight Log Evidence

The central official evidence file is EFTA02846460. It contains 118 pages of handwritten pilot logs introduced as Government Exhibit 662 RR in United States v. Maxwell.

These handwritten pages are primary evidence. They preserve dates, routes, aircraft information, passenger initials, names, and redactions as recorded in the exhibit.

The explorer uses structured records to make this material searchable. Any important claim should still be checked against the relevant handwritten page.

The Three Major Flight Log Versions

The explorer compares three major versions of the flight logs.

The Maxwell trial exhibit contains 118 pages and covers records beginning in 1991. It includes hundreds of redacted passenger entries.

The Gawker and Edwards Exhibit MM version contains 112 handwritten pages from the Giuffre v. Maxwell litigation. It covers 2002 through 2005 and does not contain the same passenger redactions.

The unredacted spreadsheet is a third party compilation created in 2020. It converts handwritten entries into structured data and adds later Federal Aviation Administration records. The site states that its author and verification method are unknown.

Researchers should not treat these three versions as interchangeable. Their dates, formats, redactions, and passenger identification methods differ.

Customs And Border Crossing Records

The explorer also incorporates Treasury Enforcement Communications System records connected to customs processing and international arrivals.

Relevant Epstein Data files include EFTA01683114, EFTA01683130, EFTA01683157, EFTA01683138, and EFTA01683146.

These records are not the original handwritten pilot logbook. They are separate government travel records that can corroborate dates, arrivals, aircraft, or passengers.

Source Confirmation Badges

The explorer marks some flights with a badge showing how many independent sources support the entry. Sources may include the structured spreadsheet, two handwritten pilot logbooks, customs records, and curated records.

A flight supported by several independent records is generally stronger than an entry drawn from only one source. Even then, the sources may repeat information from a common origin.

Researchers should open each cited source and determine whether it independently confirms the date, route, aircraft, and passengers relevant to the claim.

Passenger Names And Ambiguous Initials

Many original entries use initials rather than full names. The explorer warns that mapping those initials to full names can involve interpretation.

Initials such as DB, JB, AM, and AP can refer to more than one person. Context may support an identification, but a database match is not the same as an official identification.

Some full names come from the unattributed third party spreadsheet rather than the official handwritten exhibit. If identity matters, researchers should compare the entry with other flights, calendars, messages, customs records, testimony, and travel documents.

Missing And Incomplete Passenger Information

The flight logs are incomplete. Pilot David Rodgers told investigators that he did not always know who was in the cabin after entering the cockpit. He said that passenger manifests could list people he knew by name while recording other passengers only as female or male.

The later Federal Aviation Administration records generally provide dates, aircraft, and routes without passenger names. The explorer also notes that passenger manifests end in January 2006 within one major structured source.

An absent name does not prove that a person was not aboard. Likewise, a flight without a passenger list is not an empty flight.

What A Flight Log Entry Can Establish

A properly verified entry can support a conclusion that an aircraft traveled between documented locations on a particular date.

A passenger entry can support a conclusion that a person or identifying set of initials was recorded for that flight. The strength of the conclusion depends on the source, handwriting, context, and corroboration.

Flight records can help establish timelines, travel patterns, possible meetings, and links between locations. They should be combined with calendars, photographs, messages, testimony, financial records, and official travel documents.

What A Flight Log Entry Does Not Prove

Appearing in a flight log does not prove criminal conduct.

It does not prove that a passenger knew about Epstein’s abuse or trafficking operation.

It does not prove that every listed passenger completed the entire route.

It does not establish what happened aboard the aircraft or at a destination.

It does not prove that an ambiguous set of initials belongs to the person suggested by a compiler.

It does not prove that someone absent from the list was not aboard.

Survivor Privacy And Redacted Names

Some redactions in the official flight log exhibit may protect victims or other private individuals. The explorer states that it withholds names recovered through certain comparisons when disclosure could identify victims.

Researchers should never attempt to expose a protected survivor merely because another version of a record may make identification possible.

Public interest reporting should focus on accountability, documented conduct, institutional failures, and verified relationships. Survivor safety must take priority over completing a passenger list.

How To Verify A Flight Record

Search for the passenger, date, airport, or aircraft in the explorer.
Open the individual flight record and identify every source attached to it.
Locate the matching page in EFTA02846460 when the entry comes from the Maxwell trial exhibit.
Compare the handwriting with the explorer’s transcription.
Determine whether the record contains a full name, initials, a generic passenger label, or a redaction.
Check the relevant customs records when the trip involved an international arrival.
Compare the entry with calendars, emails, messages, photographs, testimony, and commercial bookings.
Record any uncertainty about identity, route, date, or passenger count.
Link to the original EFTA evidence file in every published claim.
State clearly that documented travel alone does not establish misconduct.

How This Tool Supports EpsteinWiki Research

The explorer can help researchers build travel timelines, compare passenger groups, identify frequently used airports, and connect aircraft movements with meetings or documented events.

It works best with the EpsteinWiki Search Hub, the EpsteinWiki guide to mapping the Epstein network, the Epstein Data evidence archive, and the Epstein Data forensic reports.

The explorer is the discovery layer. The original evidence file is the citation layer. EpsteinWiki articles should distinguish clearly between those roles.

Key Takeaways

The explorer combines private aircraft logs, aviation records, customs data, commercial bookings, and curated records.
Its displayed totals combine several record types and do not represent one complete passenger manifest.
EFTA02846460 is the central official handwritten flight log exhibit available through Epstein Data.
The database includes useful filters for passengers, dates, airports, aircraft, sources, and passenger counts.
Source confirmation badges help identify records supported by more than one dataset.
Full names inferred from ambiguous initials require independent verification.
Passenger records are incomplete, especially after 2006.
Absence from a log does not prove absence from a flight.
Presence in a flight record does not prove knowledge of or participation in criminal conduct.
Every significant finding should cite the original EFTA evidence and explain any uncertainty.

Why The Flight Logs Explorer Matters

Epstein related aviation evidence is spread across handwritten logs, court exhibits, government records, spreadsheets, and later document releases. The explorer makes those sources easier to search and compare.

Its greatest value is not a list of famous names. Its value is the ability to test timelines, compare sources, identify gaps, and trace routes back to evidence. Responsible researchers must preserve the difference between a database result, a verified travel record, and proof of wrongdoing.

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