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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 57,077
- 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 | 2 Sept 2021, 09:132 Sept 2021 | 2 Sept 2021, 09:33 | 1,225 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 2 Sept 2021, 08:152 Sept 2021 | 2 Sept 2021, 08:38 | 4,325 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 1 Sept 2021, 19:051 Sept 2021 | 1 Sept 2021, 19:10 | 1,275 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 1 Sept 2021, 14:211 Sept 2021 | 1 Sept 2021, 15:10 | 6,800 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 1 Sept 2021, 10:401 Sept 2021 | 1 Sept 2021, 10:50 | 1,150 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 31 Aug 2021, 13:0831 Aug 2021 | 31 Aug 2021, 13:24 | 6,400 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 29 Aug 2021, 18:3229 Aug 2021 | 29 Aug 2021, 18:47 | 1,375 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 29 Aug 2021, 11:1929 Aug 2021 | 29 Aug 2021, 11:44 | 5,375 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 24 Aug 2021, 14:0224 Aug 2021 | 24 Aug 2021, 14:30 | 1,350 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 24 Aug 2021, 11:3924 Aug 2021 | 24 Aug 2021, 11:58 | 3,625 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 24 Aug 2021, 10:5824 Aug 2021 | 24 Aug 2021, 11:05 | 1,100 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 21 Aug 2021, 10:1121 Aug 2021 | 21 Aug 2021, 10:22 | 1,275 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 21 Aug 2021, 09:1321 Aug 2021 | 21 Aug 2021, 09:25 | 6,700 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 20 Aug 2021, 14:0320 Aug 2021 | 20 Aug 2021, 14:23 | 1,350 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 20 Aug 2021, 11:4520 Aug 2021 | 20 Aug 2021, 12:03 | 3,850 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 14 Aug 2021, 17:5114 Aug 2021 | 14 Aug 2021, 18:28 | 1,200 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 14 Aug 2021, 15:2914 Aug 2021 | 14 Aug 2021, 15:50 | 5,825 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 12 Aug 2021, 14:3912 Aug 2021 | 12 Aug 2021, 14:54 | 1,250 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 12 Aug 2021, 09:1012 Aug 2021 | 12 Aug 2021, 09:27 | 6,550 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 6 Aug 2021, 19:486 Aug 2021 | 6 Aug 2021, 20:08 | 1,575 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 6 Aug 2021, 19:006 Aug 2021 | 6 Aug 2021, 19:19 | 5,725 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 6 Aug 2021, 17:166 Aug 2021 | 6 Aug 2021, 17:21 | 1,650 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 31 Jul 2021, 17:4831 Jul 2021 | 31 Jul 2021, 18:10 | 1,525 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 31 Jul 2021, 14:1031 Jul 2021 | 31 Jul 2021, 14:27 | 5,775 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 31 Jul 2021, 12:1431 Jul 2021 | 31 Jul 2021, 12:20 | 1,475 ft | no position received |