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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 | 3 Dec 2023, 11:263 Dec 2023 | 3 Dec 2023, 11:47 | 11,125 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 24 Nov 2023, 16:0624 Nov 2023 | 24 Nov 2023, 16:19 | 1,475 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 24 Nov 2023, 15:2824 Nov 2023 | 24 Nov 2023, 15:40 | 4,300 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 23 Nov 2023, 17:3123 Nov 2023 | 23 Nov 2023, 18:27 | 1,100 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 23 Nov 2023, 13:1623 Nov 2023 | 23 Nov 2023, 13:36 | 1,000 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 23 Nov 2023, 10:4023 Nov 2023 | 23 Nov 2023, 11:04 | 5,850 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 16 Nov 2023, 15:3416 Nov 2023 | 16 Nov 2023, 16:10 | 1,475 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 16 Nov 2023, 08:1916 Nov 2023 | 16 Nov 2023, 08:44 | 4,825 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 7 Nov 2023, 13:527 Nov 2023 | 7 Nov 2023, 14:07 | 1,325 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 7 Nov 2023, 12:377 Nov 2023 | 7 Nov 2023, 12:45 | 3,000 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 1 Nov 2023, 11:501 Nov 2023 | 1 Nov 2023, 12:28 | 1,575 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 15 Oct 2023, 16:3315 Oct 2023 | 15 Oct 2023, 16:48 | 1,200 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 15 Oct 2023, 15:0215 Oct 2023 | 15 Oct 2023, 15:20 | 3,800 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 15 Oct 2023, 12:4415 Oct 2023 | 15 Oct 2023, 13:05 | 3,800 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 13 Oct 2023, 18:3913 Oct 2023 | 13 Oct 2023, 18:46 | 1,375 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 13 Oct 2023, 17:2413 Oct 2023 | 13 Oct 2023, 17:51 | not transmitted | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 12 Oct 2023, 13:2612 Oct 2023 | 12 Oct 2023, 13:31 | 1,175 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 11 Oct 2023, 11:0211 Oct 2023 | 11 Oct 2023, 11:14 | 6,375 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 9 Oct 2023, 15:349 Oct 2023 | 9 Oct 2023, 15:56 | 1,075 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 9 Oct 2023, 10:249 Oct 2023 | 9 Oct 2023, 10:43 | 6,050 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 7 Oct 2023, 12:337 Oct 2023 | 7 Oct 2023, 13:22 | 1,050 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 2 Oct 2023, 16:462 Oct 2023 | 2 Oct 2023, 17:42 | 1,200 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 29 Sept 2023, 18:1229 Sept 2023 | 29 Sept 2023, 18:32 | 1,125 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 29 Sept 2023, 08:3629 Sept 2023 | 29 Sept 2023, 09:02 | 9,175 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 28 Sept 2023, 17:0428 Sept 2023 | 28 Sept 2023, 17:10 | 1,375 ft | no position received |