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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 57,089
- 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 | 14 Aug 2023, 14:5914 Aug 2023 | 14 Aug 2023, 15:23 | 10,775 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 13 Aug 2023, 16:2713 Aug 2023 | 13 Aug 2023, 17:30 | 1,375 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 12 Aug 2023, 12:2712 Aug 2023 | 12 Aug 2023, 12:33 | 1,225 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 9 Aug 2023, 11:069 Aug 2023 | 9 Aug 2023, 11:17 | 5,950 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 9 Aug 2023, 09:379 Aug 2023 | 9 Aug 2023, 10:28 | 1,200 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 6 Aug 2023, 09:106 Aug 2023 | 6 Aug 2023, 09:26 | 1,350 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 6 Aug 2023, 07:306 Aug 2023 | 6 Aug 2023, 07:43 | 3,800 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 2 Aug 2023, 11:412 Aug 2023 | 2 Aug 2023, 11:48 | 1,650 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 30 Jul 2023, 16:2230 Jul 2023 | 30 Jul 2023, 16:46 | 5,150 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 29 Jul 2023, 13:0229 Jul 2023 | 29 Jul 2023, 13:49 | 1,400 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 29 Jul 2023, 09:5029 Jul 2023 | 29 Jul 2023, 10:04 | 1,300 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 29 Jul 2023, 08:3529 Jul 2023 | 29 Jul 2023, 08:52 | 8,975 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 21 Jul 2023, 17:3421 Jul 2023 | 21 Jul 2023, 17:38 | 1,375 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 21 Jul 2023, 15:5921 Jul 2023 | 21 Jul 2023, 16:12 | 5,425 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 20 Jul 2023, 12:3520 Jul 2023 | 20 Jul 2023, 12:55 | 1,375 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 20 Jul 2023, 11:3420 Jul 2023 | 20 Jul 2023, 11:56 | 15,175 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 19 Jul 2023, 12:2719 Jul 2023 | 19 Jul 2023, 12:44 | 1,325 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 19 Jul 2023, 11:3119 Jul 2023 | 19 Jul 2023, 11:50 | 5,425 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 17 Jul 2023, 08:4017 Jul 2023 | 17 Jul 2023, 08:56 | 1,150 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 17 Jul 2023, 07:4017 Jul 2023 | 17 Jul 2023, 07:56 | 5,375 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 8 Jul 2023, 15:118 Jul 2023 | 8 Jul 2023, 15:36 | 1,225 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 8 Jul 2023, 11:418 Jul 2023 | 8 Jul 2023, 12:05 | 3,875 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 6 Jul 2023, 13:366 Jul 2023 | 6 Jul 2023, 13:44 | 1,325 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 5 Jul 2023, 08:295 Jul 2023 | 5 Jul 2023, 08:36 | 3,325 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 2 Jul 2023, 15:482 Jul 2023 | 2 Jul 2023, 16:17 | 1,400 ft | no position received |