Sorry if I'm being pedantic, but a lot of people do think that all military and police aircraft are filtered by FlightAware, FlightRadar24, etc., and that's not

Sorry if I'm being pedantic, but a lot of people do think that all military and police aircraft are filtered by FlightAware, FlightRadar24, etc., and that's not true. Right now I can find several military and police aircraft flying in Southern California on both FA and FR24. As far as I know, the FAA doesn't ask anyone to filter any types of aircraft or data. They do have a program, LADD[1]: "Aircraft owners or designated representative may request limiting aircraft data displayed (formally referred to as blocking) or unblocking of flight tracking data." If you use FAA data I believe you must honor the LADD list, but as far as I know owners have to submit every registration number or call sign that they want blocked (and that list has even been FOIAed[2]). It's always possible that a flight tracking site might decide they want to voluntarily block some type of aircraft, but so far there doesn't seem to be evidence of that that I know of. [1] https://ladd.faa.gov https://ladd.faa.gov [2] https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/faa-list-of-blocked-aircraft-barr-listasdi-block-list-34713/ https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/faa...