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Aircraft
HB-ZVL
Common
The fields of this record contradict each other: first contact on 2016-04-05, declared year built 2018. The log is authentic; the described identity is doubtful.
- Mode S hex
- 4B4431
- Manufacturer
- Airbus Helicopters
- Serial number
- 8508
- Year built
- 20188 years oldYear announced by the registry: 2018. Yet the aircraft was already captured in 2016, before its supposed build: an unreliable year, dropped from the oldest/newest rankings.
- Operator
- Swift Copters SA
- Country of registration
Switzerland
- First contact
- 5 Apr 2016, 18:07
- Last contact
- 17 Oct 2025, 15:55
- Logged visits
- 970
The station's story
- Cumulative contact time
- 292 h
- Distinct days
- 518
- Highest captured altitude
- 15,175 ft
- 3 corrupted frame(s) excluded from this maximum
- Discovery rank
- #104 of 57,065
- Longest contact
- 1 h 50 min
- Contacts on this Mode S address
- 1,000 contacts on the address, 970 under this registration: the address has carried several identities over time.
Same airframe, also seen as
- G-CKVHfrom 21 Feb 2026 to 21 Feb 2026 · 1 contacts
These registrations share the same serial number and type according to the reference data. Serial numbers can collide, though: it is a deduction, not a certainty.
Visits
| Callsign | Route | First contact | Last contact | Altitude at end of contact | Positions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 24 Feb 2024, 15:4224 Feb 2024 | 24 Feb 2024, 15:51 | 5,975 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 24 Feb 2024, 14:4024 Feb 2024 | 24 Feb 2024, 14:46 | 1,650 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 24 Feb 2024, 11:4424 Feb 2024 | 24 Feb 2024, 11:49 | 3,500 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 24 Feb 2024, 10:3824 Feb 2024 | 24 Feb 2024, 10:44 | 1,675 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 24 Feb 2024, 09:3224 Feb 2024 | 24 Feb 2024, 09:44 | 6,800 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 23 Feb 2024, 10:5523 Feb 2024 | 23 Feb 2024, 11:43 | 1,800 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 21 Feb 2024, 15:0221 Feb 2024 | 21 Feb 2024, 15:10 | 1,275 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 21 Feb 2024, 08:3721 Feb 2024 | 21 Feb 2024, 08:50 | 7,275 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 20 Feb 2024, 11:3420 Feb 2024 | 20 Feb 2024, 12:10 | 975 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 19 Feb 2024, 16:4519 Feb 2024 | 19 Feb 2024, 16:59 | 1,000 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 19 Feb 2024, 14:1119 Feb 2024 | 19 Feb 2024, 14:15 | 10,725 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 19 Feb 2024, 13:1819 Feb 2024 | 19 Feb 2024, 13:39 | 4,425 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 18 Feb 2024, 16:4218 Feb 2024 | 18 Feb 2024, 17:01 | 1,025 ft | no position received |
| not transmitted | route not resolved | 18 Feb 2024, 16:1318 Feb 2024 | 18 Feb 2024, 16:14 | 8,975 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 18 Feb 2024, 14:3718 Feb 2024 | 18 Feb 2024, 14:48 | 6,025 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 18 Feb 2024, 13:1618 Feb 2024 | 18 Feb 2024, 13:22 | 950 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 18 Feb 2024, 12:1118 Feb 2024 | 18 Feb 2024, 12:24 | 7,600 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 18 Feb 2024, 11:3318 Feb 2024 | 18 Feb 2024, 11:41 | 950 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 18 Feb 2024, 10:2418 Feb 2024 | 18 Feb 2024, 10:29 | 2,050 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 17 Feb 2024, 17:4117 Feb 2024 | 17 Feb 2024, 17:48 | 875 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 17 Feb 2024, 16:0517 Feb 2024 | 17 Feb 2024, 16:15 | not transmitted | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 17 Feb 2024, 15:0517 Feb 2024 | 17 Feb 2024, 15:10 | 1,000 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 17 Feb 2024, 13:4917 Feb 2024 | 17 Feb 2024, 14:00 | 7,525 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 17 Feb 2024, 12:1917 Feb 2024 | 17 Feb 2024, 12:24 | 975 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 17 Feb 2024, 10:3017 Feb 2024 | 17 Feb 2024, 10:40 | 5,900 ft | no position received |