Sleuth Report: Greg Conners Tracks Missing Helicopter Flight Plan Spreadsheets
Snapshot
| Originating sleuth | Greg Conners: Epstein’s Disappearing Helicopters. Original article read in full. |
|---|---|
| Publication date | October 23, 2026, as displayed by the publisher. The exact publication time and corresponding Denver calendar date remain unverified. |
| Central lead | A released FAA email names five Excel attachments covering three helicopter registrations. |
| Independent checks | Five page email chain, official flight log exhibit, Maxwell trial testimony and the New Mexico commission’s interim report. |
| Key limit | The five spreadsheets were not obtained for this review. Their contents, completeness and present public availability remain unverified. |
| Assessment | A specific records retrieval lead. Missing passenger information does not establish who traveled or what happened on a journey. |
Important points and key takeaways
Greg Conners’s investigation directs attention to five named FAA spreadsheets and the unresolved relationship between aircraft movements, passenger records and travel to Zorro Ranch. Conners reports filing an FAA records request on October 19 and receiving an acknowledgment from New Mexico authorities on October 20. Those request records were not independently obtained for this review.
- The released correspondence documents an FAA transmission naming five attachments. It does not supply their underlying rows.
- An official pilot log records one helicopter journey from ZORRO to AEG on August 6, 2002. Its passenger field is blank.
- Flight plan records require interpretation. The FAA’s own message legend includes cancellations and amendments.
- Neither a blank passenger field nor an absent public attachment identifies a survivor, proves misconduct or establishes deliberate concealment.
Evidence appearances and exact references
EFTA00010702: the five attachment lead
The readable five page copy was checked against the document identifier and the linked official release location. Page 1, stamped EFTA00010702, contains a January 28, 2020 FAA email naming these files:
SIMPLE_FLIGHT_PLANS_N331JE_(2010-2020).xlsxSIMPLE_FLIGHT_PLANS_N491GM_(2000-2009).xlsxSIMPLE_FLIGHT_PLANS_N491GM_(2010-2020).xlsxSIMPLE_FLIGHT_PLANS_N722JE_(2010-2014).xlsxSIMPLE_FLIGHT_PLANS_N722JE_(2015-2020).xlsx
The same page says the earliest available information dates to 2007. A filename beginning in 2000 therefore cannot establish actual coverage from that year. Page 2, EFTA00010703, explains that times use UTC and lists message types including arrivals, departures, amendments and cancellations.
Pages 3 and 4, EFTA00010704 and EFTA00010705, discuss aircraft registrations and ownership questions. Page 4 also contains the FBI’s December 6, 2019 request for information, including passenger manifests where available.
The scanned correspondence establishes a concrete attachment trail. It does not establish that each filed plan became a completed flight, that the attachments contained passenger names, or that the files remain undisclosed everywhere.
Government Exhibit 662 RR: one recorded helicopter leg
Page 95 of the official 118 page PDF contains an August 6, 2002 row listing aircraft model 206L3, registration N474AW, departure ZORRO and arrival AEG. No passengers are entered on that row.
This entry supports the narrower conclusion that the pilot log records a helicopter leg using ZORRO as a departure label. It cannot independently identify occupants, establish the purpose of the flight or connect that aircraft to the three registrations in the later FAA spreadsheet names.
Conners associates this log entry with EFTA02846554. That EFTA cross reference was not independently resolved, so the verified citation here is the official exhibit and page 95.
Maxwell trial testimony: aircraft and travel context
The November 30, 2021 transcript records pilot Lawrence Visoski discussing Gulfstream arrivals at Santa Fe and Boeing arrivals at Albuquerque on reporter page 151, lines 12 through 18. This establishes airport context, not passenger travel onward to the ranch.
On reporter page 164, lines 12 through 24, Visoski discusses helicopter travel between St. Thomas and Little Saint James and Maxwell flying on many occasions. On reporter page 278, lines 2 through 17, he describes accompanying her as a safety pilot and Epstein controlling the normal mission. These passages concern Caribbean helicopter operations and cannot establish particular New Mexico flights.
New Mexico commission: an unresolved records request
The commission’s linked interim report copy, bearing an August 5, 2026 cover and an August 27 edit filename, lists an FAA subpoena dated June 12, 2026 on page 27. Its response column says no response. That is a historical report status, not a verified statement about the FAA’s response as of October 23.
Pages 62 and 63 describe 227 flights involving Santa Fe or Albuquerque between December 3, 1992 and May 27, 2019, with 80 entries lacking passenger information. These are airport records discussed by the commission. They are not a count of 227 landings at Zorro Ranch.
Why the reporting matters
EpsteinWiki’s Zorro Ranch background provides a place to situate the transport questions. The useful advance in Conners’s reporting is a precise retrieval target: five named files in a dated agency communication. That is more testable than a general claim that flight records are missing.
The records also suggest a method for checking any future release. Investigators would need to distinguish plans from completed journeys, reconcile registration changes over time and compare dates with pilot logs and other independently verified records. Passenger identity cannot be supplied by inference from a route or an aircraft association.
EpsteinWiki’s exhibit guide supplies internal context for the official flight log collection. The exhibit itself remains the source for the page 95 finding above.
Uncertainties and open questions
- Can the five Excel attachments be retrieved with their original metadata and complete contents?
- Which rows represent completed flights, cancellations, amendments or duplicate messages?
- What records, if any, connect particular helicopter flights to independently documented passenger movements?
- Has the FAA responded to the commission since the reviewed interim report?
- Can Conners’s reported FAA request, New Mexico acknowledgment and county records correspondence be independently inspected?
This review did not obtain those request responses or the spreadsheets. It does not independently verify Conners’s permit related conclusions, every EFTA cross reference, or any general claim about aviation reporting requirements. Absence from the materials reviewed is not proof of destruction, illegal operations or intentional suppression.
Survivor identities and identifying travel details are excluded. An appearance in correspondence, testimony or a flight record does not by itself establish wrongdoing.
Sources
Greg Conners, Epstein’s Disappearing Helicopters is the originating investigation, displayed October 23, 2026.
Epstein Data record EFTA00010702 identifies the released email chain. The Justice Department original location presented an access gate during review. The readable PDF mirror supplied pages 1 through 5 for verification.
The Justice Department’s Government Exhibit 662 RR PDF supplied page 95.
The Maxwell trial transcript copy supplied reporter pages 151, 164 and 278, corresponding to PDF pages 23, 36 and 150.
The New Mexico commission interim report PDF supplied pages 27, 62 and 63. The commission archive verifies the document’s public source.