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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 57,075
- 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 | 15 Jul 2021, 12:5115 Jul 2021 | 15 Jul 2021, 13:01 | 1,350 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 15 Jul 2021, 10:5815 Jul 2021 | 15 Jul 2021, 11:53 | 1,325 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 11 Jul 2021, 12:0011 Jul 2021 | 11 Jul 2021, 12:05 | 1,300 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 11 Jul 2021, 11:2211 Jul 2021 | 11 Jul 2021, 11:33 | 2,850 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 11 Jul 2021, 09:1811 Jul 2021 | 11 Jul 2021, 09:27 | 1,325 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 11 Jul 2021, 08:1811 Jul 2021 | 11 Jul 2021, 08:26 | 5,625 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 10 Jul 2021, 10:0910 Jul 2021 | 10 Jul 2021, 10:31 | 1,350 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 9 Jul 2021, 12:129 Jul 2021 | 9 Jul 2021, 12:17 | 1,175 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 9 Jul 2021, 11:149 Jul 2021 | 9 Jul 2021, 11:19 | 3,700 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 3 Jul 2021, 14:583 Jul 2021 | 3 Jul 2021, 15:05 | 1,350 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 3 Jul 2021, 12:013 Jul 2021 | 3 Jul 2021, 12:10 | 4,325 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 3 Jul 2021, 11:083 Jul 2021 | 3 Jul 2021, 11:21 | 1,325 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 3 Jul 2021, 08:003 Jul 2021 | 3 Jul 2021, 08:13 | 8,375 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 2 Jul 2021, 14:532 Jul 2021 | 2 Jul 2021, 14:59 | 1,300 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 2 Jul 2021, 11:442 Jul 2021 | 2 Jul 2021, 11:50 | 4,175 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 1 Jul 2021, 19:001 Jul 2021 | 1 Jul 2021, 19:20 | 1,325 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 1 Jul 2021, 18:051 Jul 2021 | 1 Jul 2021, 18:25 | 4,375 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 1 Jul 2021, 15:041 Jul 2021 | 1 Jul 2021, 15:29 | 1,300 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 1 Jul 2021, 13:221 Jul 2021 | 1 Jul 2021, 13:42 | 4,300 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 27 Jun 2021, 15:1027 Jun 2021 | 27 Jun 2021, 15:35 | 1,400 ft | no position received |
| not transmitted | route not resolved | 25 Jun 2021, 10:2325 Jun 2021 | 25 Jun 2021, 10:23 | not transmitted | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 25 Jun 2021, 09:4825 Jun 2021 | 25 Jun 2021, 09:56 | 2,675 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 22 Jun 2021, 13:2722 Jun 2021 | 22 Jun 2021, 13:35 | 1,450 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 22 Jun 2021, 10:3822 Jun 2021 | 22 Jun 2021, 10:44 | 3,250 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 18 Jun 2021, 14:5218 Jun 2021 | 18 Jun 2021, 14:56 | 1,400 ft | no position received |