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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 | 8 Aug 2024, 11:568 Aug 2024 | 8 Aug 2024, 11:59 | 1,325 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 5 Aug 2024, 14:545 Aug 2024 | 5 Aug 2024, 15:33 | 9,050 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 5 Aug 2024, 10:335 Aug 2024 | 5 Aug 2024, 10:40 | 1,400 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 5 Aug 2024, 09:425 Aug 2024 | 5 Aug 2024, 10:04 | 12,025 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 2 Aug 2024, 12:292 Aug 2024 | 2 Aug 2024, 12:35 | 1,375 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 1 Aug 2024, 09:441 Aug 2024 | 1 Aug 2024, 09:48 | 3,500 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 26 Jul 2024, 18:3526 Jul 2024 | 26 Jul 2024, 18:52 | 1,450 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 26 Jul 2024, 17:4326 Jul 2024 | 26 Jul 2024, 17:48 | 2,300 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 26 Jul 2024, 11:2926 Jul 2024 | 26 Jul 2024, 11:56 | 7,725 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 25 Jul 2024, 15:4525 Jul 2024 | 25 Jul 2024, 16:15 | 1,425 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 20 Jul 2024, 11:3120 Jul 2024 | 20 Jul 2024, 11:38 | 1,475 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 20 Jul 2024, 10:2320 Jul 2024 | 20 Jul 2024, 11:03 | 11,975 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 19 Jul 2024, 10:1619 Jul 2024 | 19 Jul 2024, 10:21 | 1,250 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 19 Jul 2024, 08:5919 Jul 2024 | 19 Jul 2024, 09:12 | 7,750 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 18 Jul 2024, 13:0718 Jul 2024 | 18 Jul 2024, 13:25 | 1,200 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 17 Jul 2024, 09:0417 Jul 2024 | 17 Jul 2024, 09:20 | 7,550 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 16 Jul 2024, 11:1616 Jul 2024 | 16 Jul 2024, 11:56 | 1,350 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 13 Jul 2024, 19:1113 Jul 2024 | 13 Jul 2024, 19:14 | 1,450 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 13 Jul 2024, 10:2413 Jul 2024 | 13 Jul 2024, 10:31 | 3,325 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 10 Jul 2024, 14:5710 Jul 2024 | 10 Jul 2024, 15:30 | 1,375 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 10 Jul 2024, 09:4610 Jul 2024 | 10 Jul 2024, 10:02 | 7,775 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 10 Jul 2024, 08:3410 Jul 2024 | 10 Jul 2024, 08:40 | 1,425 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 9 Jul 2024, 16:239 Jul 2024 | 9 Jul 2024, 16:47 | 1,400 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 9 Jul 2024, 15:139 Jul 2024 | 9 Jul 2024, 15:23 | 6,325 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 8 Jul 2024, 09:298 Jul 2024 | 8 Jul 2024, 10:03 | 1,325 ft | no position received |