What flight logs and passenger manifests from Epstein's plane have been fully verified and published?
Executive summary
The most authoritative, publicly available flight logs with passenger names are the handwritten flight logs and manifests entered into evidence in USA v. Maxwell, which prosecutors released in largely unredacted form during the trial (these are the primary “verified” passenger lists) [1] [2] [3]. Other government releases and journalistic reconstructions have published additional logs, manifest copies, and large volumes of aircraft movement records, but those mixes combine fully verified court exhibits with operational flight records that do not list passengers or contain redactions and gaps [4] [5] [6] [7].
1. The court-entered flight logs used at the Maxwell trial — the closest thing to “fully verified” passenger manifests
Handwritten flight logs and manifests were entered into evidence at Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial and publicly released in versions that prosecutors and the defense negotiated, producing roughly 118 pages of passenger-name-containing flight logs documenting trips largely from the 1990s through 2006; those court documents are the most directly authenticated records because they were admitted as trial exhibits in USA v. Maxwell [1] [2] [3].
2. Congressional and DOJ releases — partial, redacted manifest copies with official provenance
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee published partial records from the Epstein estate that included copies of flight logs and manifests spanning 1990–2019, but those public releases were explicitly partial and heavily redacted to protect victims and ongoing investigations, meaning they are official but incomplete publications rather than an unambiguous, comprehensive verification of every passenger entry [4]. The Department of Justice and related federal releases have similarly published batches of documents that include flight logs and redacted passenger lists; these releases confirm the existence of government-held manifest records but do not amount to a single, fully declassified, end‑to‑end verified passenger manifest for the entire period [5] [3].
3. U.S. Customs and Border Protection and FAA records — verified movements, not passenger manifests
CBP has posted Epstein-related records to its public site, and FAA/flight-history disclosures revealed more than 2,000 flight records associated with Epstein’s jets; those records are official and useful for reconstructing flights and aircraft movements, but the FAA and ADS-B signal data do not include passenger names and therefore cannot on their own verify who was aboard any given flight [8] [9] [7].
4. Journalistic compilations and public databases — comprehensive but heterogenous in verification
Investigative outfits such as Business Insider consolidated court-unsealed manifests, FAA/ADS-B movement data, and other records into searchable databases documenting thousands of Epstein flights; those compilations are published and valuable for research, but they mix documents that are fully verified (court exhibits) with movement-only records and editorial corrections, so researchers should treat each individual entry according to its source (manifest vs. signal vs. spreadsheet reconstruction) rather than assuming uniform verification across the database [6] [7].
5. DocumentCloud, archive copies and third‑party aggregators — accessible but cautionary
Platforms including DocumentCloud and various archived PDFs host the flight logs and manifest scans released in litigation and by government sources, making many of the same documents available to the public; these reproductions are useful for independent inspection but reflect the same limits — redactions, gaps in years (notably 2013–2016 before later FAA disclosures), and variable provenance — so presence on an archival site does not by itself equal independent verification beyond the document’s original source [2] [10] [11].
Conclusion: what has been “fully verified and published”?
The unequivocal answer is that the flight logs and passenger lists admitted as evidence in USA v. Maxwell and published by the government during that litigation are the primary fully verified passenger manifests available to the public [1] [2] [3]. Beyond that, additional government releases (House Oversight, DOJ, CBP) and journalistic datasets have published copies or compilations of manifests and thousands of movement records, but those sources include redactions, incomplete spans of years, and datasets (FAA/ADS‑B) that do not list passengers, so no single, complete, fully verified passenger manifest covering Epstein’s entire fleet and every year has been published without qualification [4] [5] [8] [6] [7].