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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 | 9 Jul 2025, 09:559 Jul 2025 | 9 Jul 2025, 09:56 | 3,725 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 9 Jul 2025, 09:049 Jul 2025 | 9 Jul 2025, 09:21 | 3,900 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 4 Jul 2025, 12:544 Jul 2025 | 4 Jul 2025, 13:24 | 1,125 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 4 Jul 2025, 12:194 Jul 2025 | 4 Jul 2025, 12:25 | 1,175 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 4 Jul 2025, 11:294 Jul 2025 | 4 Jul 2025, 11:50 | 11,825 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 30 Jun 2025, 16:4730 Jun 2025 | 30 Jun 2025, 17:10 | 1,325 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 30 Jun 2025, 12:2730 Jun 2025 | 30 Jun 2025, 12:48 | 4,225 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 27 Jun 2025, 16:1427 Jun 2025 | 27 Jun 2025, 16:20 | 1,125 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 27 Jun 2025, 12:0027 Jun 2025 | 27 Jun 2025, 12:11 | 6,750 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 24 Jun 2025, 12:1424 Jun 2025 | 24 Jun 2025, 12:25 | 1,300 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 20 Jun 2025, 16:0620 Jun 2025 | 20 Jun 2025, 16:27 | 8,575 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 14 Jun 2025, 17:3714 Jun 2025 | 14 Jun 2025, 17:54 | 1,275 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 14 Jun 2025, 15:4214 Jun 2025 | 14 Jun 2025, 16:34 | 3,700 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 13 Jun 2025, 10:5613 Jun 2025 | 13 Jun 2025, 11:09 | 1,225 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 12 Jun 2025, 15:2212 Jun 2025 | 12 Jun 2025, 15:40 | 10,225 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 6 Jun 2025, 13:576 Jun 2025 | 6 Jun 2025, 14:17 | 1,350 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 6 Jun 2025, 11:466 Jun 2025 | 6 Jun 2025, 11:55 | 4,125 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 4 Jun 2025, 11:264 Jun 2025 | 4 Jun 2025, 11:46 | 1,450 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 4 Jun 2025, 09:154 Jun 2025 | 4 Jun 2025, 09:33 | 3,750 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 16 May 2025, 18:2316 May 2025 | 16 May 2025, 18:37 | 1,375 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 16 May 2025, 11:0816 May 2025 | 16 May 2025, 11:24 | 2,150 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 30 Apr 2025, 11:5030 Apr 2025 | 30 Apr 2025, 11:55 | 1,150 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 29 Apr 2025, 08:4929 Apr 2025 | 29 Apr 2025, 08:54 | 3,400 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 15 Apr 2025, 14:0915 Apr 2025 | 15 Apr 2025, 15:03 | 1,775 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 10 Apr 2025, 19:2110 Apr 2025 | 10 Apr 2025, 19:35 | 1,250 ft | no position received |