Cessna 140
Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
ATC Issue All Types
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I was busy working traffic on Donie Low (29). I noticed an aircraft flashing at me from the high side of GGG; Longview Approach heading west. I went back to my traffic and when I returned I noticed that the aircraft went non-RADAR and I accepted the handoff and immediately told myself I shouldn't have taken it because the target was non-RADAR. The aircraft never called me. Longview Approach called and asked if I ever talked to the aircraft and I told them no. They said they no longer had him in RADAR and were not talking to him. I returned to my traffic. I then noticed a VFR target squawking 1200 roughly ten miles to the west of where I lost RADAR on the aircraft; heading in the same direction and at the same altitude. I assumed it was him and that he decided to go on his own; so I removed strip on the aircraft and dropped the target. Improve the RADAR coverage in the area.
ZFW Controller described RADAR coverage issues resulting in lost RADAR targets.