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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 57,080
- 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 | 16 Mar 2023, 14:2716 Mar 2023 | 16 Mar 2023, 14:43 | 1,350 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 16 Mar 2023, 11:3116 Mar 2023 | 16 Mar 2023, 11:45 | 7,050 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 13 Mar 2023, 18:4413 Mar 2023 | 13 Mar 2023, 18:52 | 1,775 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 13 Mar 2023, 17:3313 Mar 2023 | 13 Mar 2023, 17:46 | 6,175 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 7 Mar 2023, 14:417 Mar 2023 | 7 Mar 2023, 14:49 | 1,750 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 7 Mar 2023, 13:337 Mar 2023 | 7 Mar 2023, 13:47 | 5,275 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 6 Mar 2023, 15:596 Mar 2023 | 6 Mar 2023, 16:15 | 1,675 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 6 Mar 2023, 14:566 Mar 2023 | 6 Mar 2023, 15:14 | 8,100 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 4 Mar 2023, 16:034 Mar 2023 | 4 Mar 2023, 16:12 | 1,250 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 4 Mar 2023, 15:004 Mar 2023 | 4 Mar 2023, 15:09 | 6,600 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 22 Feb 2023, 15:4022 Feb 2023 | 22 Feb 2023, 15:45 | 1,425 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 22 Feb 2023, 14:3922 Feb 2023 | 22 Feb 2023, 14:51 | 6,525 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 19 Feb 2023, 16:3319 Feb 2023 | 19 Feb 2023, 17:04 | 1,100 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 19 Feb 2023, 14:3019 Feb 2023 | 19 Feb 2023, 14:42 | 7,100 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 19 Feb 2023, 09:5219 Feb 2023 | 19 Feb 2023, 09:59 | 1,050 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 19 Feb 2023, 08:4019 Feb 2023 | 19 Feb 2023, 08:58 | 6,475 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 19 Feb 2023, 08:0819 Feb 2023 | 19 Feb 2023, 08:13 | 1,175 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 18 Feb 2023, 16:2318 Feb 2023 | 18 Feb 2023, 16:42 | 1,100 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 18 Feb 2023, 15:1418 Feb 2023 | 18 Feb 2023, 15:35 | 11,650 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 18 Feb 2023, 14:2518 Feb 2023 | 18 Feb 2023, 14:40 | 1,050 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 18 Feb 2023, 11:5818 Feb 2023 | 18 Feb 2023, 12:16 | 10,150 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 16 Feb 2023, 15:5116 Feb 2023 | 16 Feb 2023, 15:57 | 975 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 16 Feb 2023, 14:2816 Feb 2023 | 16 Feb 2023, 14:40 | 4,275 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 16 Feb 2023, 12:0416 Feb 2023 | 16 Feb 2023, 12:18 | 1,000 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 16 Feb 2023, 10:4816 Feb 2023 | 16 Feb 2023, 11:07 | 8,950 ft | no position received |