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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 57,103
- 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 | 31 Jul 2021, 10:1331 Jul 2021 | 31 Jul 2021, 10:20 | 4,550 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 30 Jul 2021, 17:1830 Jul 2021 | 30 Jul 2021, 17:26 | 1,475 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 30 Jul 2021, 10:5730 Jul 2021 | 30 Jul 2021, 11:03 | 3,400 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 29 Jul 2021, 10:3129 Jul 2021 | 29 Jul 2021, 10:52 | 1,350 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 29 Jul 2021, 08:3229 Jul 2021 | 29 Jul 2021, 08:54 | 4,450 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 28 Jul 2021, 17:3928 Jul 2021 | 28 Jul 2021, 17:57 | 1,375 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 28 Jul 2021, 17:0528 Jul 2021 | 28 Jul 2021, 17:13 | 41,200 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 27 Jul 2021, 17:5627 Jul 2021 | 27 Jul 2021, 18:02 | 1,425 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 27 Jul 2021, 09:2927 Jul 2021 | 27 Jul 2021, 09:40 | 7,225 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 25 Jul 2021, 19:4425 Jul 2021 | 25 Jul 2021, 20:00 | 1,525 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 25 Jul 2021, 17:3825 Jul 2021 | 25 Jul 2021, 17:56 | 3,775 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 24 Jul 2021, 14:1224 Jul 2021 | 24 Jul 2021, 14:31 | 1,550 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 24 Jul 2021, 12:3724 Jul 2021 | 24 Jul 2021, 12:50 | 3,750 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 21 Jul 2021, 19:3421 Jul 2021 | 21 Jul 2021, 19:54 | 1,275 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 21 Jul 2021, 17:4821 Jul 2021 | 21 Jul 2021, 18:09 | 4,625 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 21 Jul 2021, 14:4121 Jul 2021 | 21 Jul 2021, 15:07 | 1,400 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 21 Jul 2021, 12:0321 Jul 2021 | 21 Jul 2021, 12:20 | 3,750 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 20 Jul 2021, 16:0120 Jul 2021 | 20 Jul 2021, 16:52 | 1,375 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 20 Jul 2021, 14:2120 Jul 2021 | 20 Jul 2021, 15:15 | 1,375 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 18 Jul 2021, 12:1718 Jul 2021 | 18 Jul 2021, 12:48 | 1,400 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 18 Jul 2021, 11:2418 Jul 2021 | 18 Jul 2021, 11:51 | 3,525 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 17 Jul 2021, 15:5317 Jul 2021 | 17 Jul 2021, 16:10 | 1,300 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 17 Jul 2021, 13:0417 Jul 2021 | 17 Jul 2021, 13:28 | 3,575 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 16 Jul 2021, 19:5316 Jul 2021 | 16 Jul 2021, 20:11 | 1,300 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 16 Jul 2021, 13:1316 Jul 2021 | 16 Jul 2021, 13:29 | 2,575 ft | no position received |