Appearing in the flight logs is not evidence of wrongdoing. Most passengers were employees, business associates and social contacts, and many flights predate the 2008 conviction entirely. The logs establish that a named person was on an aircraft on a date. They establish nothing else, and this page is largely about what they cannot show.
No document in this story is quoted more often or understood less well.
What they actually are: handwritten records kept by two pilots — Larry Visoski, chief pilot for roughly 25 years, and David Rodgers — noting date, departure, arrival, and names in a remarks column. They were kept to satisfy aviation requirements. They were never intended as a record of who was where with whom.
Which is why the counts never agree. Independent databases list anywhere from 1,497 to 3,652 flights depending on what is counted and how illegible handwriting is transcribed. Rodgers’ tabulated logs alone hold 5,001 records across roughly 1,149 flights and 289 named passengers. There is still no authoritative figure.
The two gaps are what matter, and neither gets much attention.
First, the names stop. In Rodgers’ logs the passenger manifests end in January 2006. The 271 subsequent entries are FAA records only. The Palm Beach investigation had opened in March 2005. The entire period covering the investigation, the non-prosecution agreement, and the decade after it has no passenger record in this source at all.
Second, women appear to be missing. A January 2015 filing in Jane Doe #1 and #2 v. USA says of three young women: “The existence of these three ‘females’ is conspicuously absent from the Rogers’ logs.” If passengers were omitted, the omission runs in exactly the direction that matters.
Which produces the conclusion most coverage gets backwards. Being in the logs is not an accusation. And because the record is demonstrably incomplete, not being in them is not a clearance either. The document is weaker evidence in both directions than almost anyone treats it as.
Apr 1991 – Sep 2013 — span of the logbooks entered in US v. Maxwell (GX-661, GX-662).
5,001 records · ~1,149 flights · 289 named passengers — Rodgers’ tabulated logs, Nov 1995 to Dec 2015.
1,497 to 3,652 flights — range across independent public databases.
5,233 records — the October 2025 estate subpoena batch. Only 213 have searchable text.
271 entries after January 2006 carry no passenger names at all.
Section 01
The Aircraft
The aircraft the tabloids named the “Lolita Express.” Epstein never used that name; it is a press invention, and this archive uses the registration. Acquired in the 1990s, operated through at least 2016.
Used for shorter trips and smaller groups. Logged separately from the 727 in some records. A later G550 appears as N212JE.
Used for the short hop from St. Thomas to Little St. James — the island’s runway could not take a fixed-wing aircraft. Anyone who reached the island did so by helicopter or boat, and those movements are recorded differently.
A twin-engine propeller aircraft, the smallest in the fleet.
Section 02
The Record
The earliest entry in the pilot logbooks entered as evidence in US v. Maxwell. Exhibits GX-661 and GX-662 cover April 1991 to September 2013 — twenty-two years of private aviation.
Larry Visoski, chief pilot for roughly 25 to 28 years, and David Rodgers. The logs are handwritten — date, departure, arrival, and passenger names in a remarks column. They were kept for aviation purposes, not as evidence.
In Rodgers’ tabulated logs, passenger manifests end in January 2006. The 271 entries after that date are FAA records only — no names. The Palm Beach investigation had begun in March 2005.
A court filing in Jane Doe #1 and #2 v. USA states of three young women: “The existence of these three ‘females’ is conspicuously absent from the Rogers’ logs.” A federal filing asserting that female passengers were left out of the record.
112 pages of Rodgers’ handwritten logs covering 2002–2005, obtained through Giuffre v. Maxwell, are published unredacted — names that are blacked out in the later Maxwell trial exhibit are visible in this version.
Visoski is a prosecution witness at Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial. Rodgers also testifies, and had earlier given an FBI proffer in the SDNY investigation. Rodgers confirmed collecting a victim from Interlochen but maintained he never witnessed sexual activity or saw unaccompanied minors on flights. During the civil litigation he was represented by an attorney paid by Epstein.
Government Exhibit 662-RR — 118 pages of the original handwritten logbooks — is released in the DOJ’s first tranche.
5,233 scanned flight records arrive in Batch 3: eAPIS departure and arrival manifests, pilot logbook pages, and FAA records for N908JE, N909JE and N212JE. Only 213 have searchable text.
Independent indexes now list between 1,497 and 3,652 flights depending on what is counted. Rodgers’ tabulated logs alone contain 5,001 records across ~1,149 flights and 289 named passengers. There is still no single authoritative count.
Section 03
What They Can and Cannot Show
Six things to hold in mind before citing a flight log — including two that cut against the people the logs are usually used to accuse, and two that cut the other way.
A flight log establishes that a person was on an aircraft on a date. It establishes nothing else. Most passengers were employees, associates and social contacts flying for entirely ordinary reasons, and many flights predate the 2008 conviction. Appearing in the logs is not an accusation and this archive does not treat it as one.
Names are sometimes illegible, sometimes initials only, sometimes abbreviated. Transcriptions disagree with one another, which is why published flight counts differ by thousands.
Not every flight was logged, and records for some periods are missing entirely. The logs were kept to satisfy aviation requirements, not to document who travelled.
Rodgers’ passenger manifests end in January 2006; everything after is FAA data without names. The period covering the investigation, the plea, and the decade that followed has no passenger record at all in this source.
A 2015 federal court filing states that three young women were “conspicuously absent from the Rogers’ logs.” If passengers were omitted, the logs understate exactly the category of travel that matters most.
Because the record is incomplete, not appearing in the logs is not exoneration, just as appearing is not an accusation. The document is weaker evidence in both directions than it is usually treated as being.
Section 04
The Men Who Wrote Them
The logs exist because two employees kept them, and both later testified.
Larry Visoski flew for Epstein for roughly 25 to 28 years and was a prosecution witness at Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial in 2021, describing what he had observed across nearly three decades.
David Rodgers also testified, and had given an FBI proffer in the SDNY investigation. Unlike some in Epstein’s employ, he cooperated and produced his logs — which is the reason a substantial part of this record exists at all.
His testimony is carefully bounded. He confirmed collecting a victim from Interlochen, the Michigan arts academy. He maintained he never witnessed sexual activity and never saw unaccompanied minors on flights.
And one detail belongs on the record. During the civil litigation, Rodgers was represented by an attorney paid by Epstein. That is the same structural position every household employee occupied — direct knowledge, no independent resources, and a legal bill covered by the person they might testify against.
Neither pilot has been accused of any offence, and both gave evidence that was used at a criminal trial. The logs they kept convicted nobody by themselves, but they corroborated the movements survivors described, which is what documentary evidence is actually for.
The honest summary of this whole document class: the flight logs are not the smoking gun the internet treats them as, and they are not nothing. They are a partial, handwritten, incomplete travel record that lines up with testimony — and that stops naming anyone in January 2006.
Section 05
Open Questions
Section 06
Sources
The Tabulated Logs
Rodgers’ 5,001 records, the 289 named passengers, and the note that manifests end in January 2006.
Browse the logs →US v. Maxwell, GX-662-RR
118 pages of the original handwritten pilot logbooks, released in DOJ Phase One.
epsteinarchive.org →David Rodgers
The FBI proffer, the Interlochen testimony, the Epstein-paid attorney, and the “conspicuously absent” filing.
Read the profile →The Fleet
The 727, the Gulfstreams, the Cessna and the helicopter — and why the island needed the last of them.
epsteingpt.org →Who Actually Flew
The passenger frequency — and why almost no celebrities appear near the top.
Read the report →Reading the Files
The law required searchable. The government released scans. AI filled the gap — and nobody audits it.
Read the report →Bill Clinton
The 2002 Africa trip — the single most documented use of the aircraft.
Read the profile →The Staff
The employees who saw the most, and the legal position they were in.
Read the report →The Files
What has been released, what is withheld, and what remains sealed.
Read the report →