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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 57,441
- 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 | 7 Mar 2025, 16:457 Mar 2025 | 7 Mar 2025, 16:50 | 3,450 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 7 Mar 2025, 15:327 Mar 2025 | 7 Mar 2025, 15:59 | 1,450 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 7 Mar 2025, 14:167 Mar 2025 | 7 Mar 2025, 14:30 | 7,975 ft | no position received |
| not transmitted | route not resolved | 6 Mar 2025, 13:576 Mar 2025 | 6 Mar 2025, 14:13 | 1,225 ft | no position received |
| not transmitted | route not resolved | 6 Mar 2025, 10:426 Mar 2025 | 6 Mar 2025, 10:59 | 9,000 ft | no position received |
| not transmitted | route not resolved | 28 Feb 2025, 15:3628 Feb 2025 | 28 Feb 2025, 15:52 | 1,225 ft | no position received |
| not transmitted | route not resolved | 28 Feb 2025, 14:5828 Feb 2025 | 28 Feb 2025, 14:58 | 10,650 ft | no position received |
| not transmitted | route not resolved | 28 Feb 2025, 10:0528 Feb 2025 | 28 Feb 2025, 10:24 | 11,625 ft | no position received |
| not transmitted | route not resolved | 27 Feb 2025, 17:3927 Feb 2025 | 27 Feb 2025, 17:45 | 1,250 ft | no position received |
| not transmitted | route not resolved | 27 Feb 2025, 16:2727 Feb 2025 | 27 Feb 2025, 16:32 | 3,550 ft | no position received |
| not transmitted | route not resolved | 26 Feb 2025, 16:2426 Feb 2025 | 26 Feb 2025, 16:40 | 1,200 ft | no position received |
| not transmitted | route not resolved | 26 Feb 2025, 15:3626 Feb 2025 | 26 Feb 2025, 15:52 | 3,850 ft | no position received |
| not transmitted | route not resolved | 21 Feb 2025, 12:1721 Feb 2025 | 21 Feb 2025, 13:23 | 1,150 ft | no position received |
| not transmitted | route not resolved | 8 Feb 2025, 14:328 Feb 2025 | 8 Feb 2025, 14:38 | 1,225 ft | no position received |
| not transmitted | route not resolved | 8 Feb 2025, 13:228 Feb 2025 | 8 Feb 2025, 13:27 | 3,525 ft | no position received |
| not transmitted | route not resolved | 17 Jan 2025, 10:0017 Jan 2025 | 17 Jan 2025, 10:11 | 7,025 ft | no position received |
| not transmitted | route not resolved | 12 Jan 2025, 15:1612 Jan 2025 | 12 Jan 2025, 15:21 | 900 ft | no position received |
| not transmitted | route not resolved | 12 Jan 2025, 13:4712 Jan 2025 | 12 Jan 2025, 13:56 | 6,025 ft | no position received |
| not transmitted | route not resolved | 5 Jan 2025, 16:385 Jan 2025 | 5 Jan 2025, 16:46 | 1,625 ft | no position received |
| not transmitted | route not resolved | 5 Jan 2025, 15:295 Jan 2025 | 5 Jan 2025, 15:41 | 6,950 ft | no position received |
| not transmitted | route not resolved | 26 Dec 2024, 13:0626 Dec 2024 | 26 Dec 2024, 13:27 | 875 ft | no position received |
| not transmitted | route not resolved | 26 Dec 2024, 11:5426 Dec 2024 | 26 Dec 2024, 12:06 | 6,450 ft | no position received |
| not transmitted | route not resolved | 25 Dec 2024, 16:3025 Dec 2024 | 25 Dec 2024, 16:49 | 900 ft | no position received |
| not transmitted | route not resolved | 25 Dec 2024, 15:2125 Dec 2024 | 25 Dec 2024, 15:47 | 6,625 ft | no position received |
| not transmitted | route not resolved | 17 Dec 2024, 16:4517 Dec 2024 | 17 Dec 2024, 16:50 | 1,025 ft | no position received |