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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 57,065
- 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 | 17 Oct 2025, 15:3417 Oct 2025 | 17 Oct 2025, 15:55 | 1,225 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 17 Oct 2025, 14:1317 Oct 2025 | 17 Oct 2025, 14:27 | 7,050 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 7 Oct 2025, 15:157 Oct 2025 | 7 Oct 2025, 15:25 | 1,125 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 29 Sept 2025, 15:1129 Sept 2025 | 29 Sept 2025, 16:15 | 1,175 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 27 Sept 2025, 17:2627 Sept 2025 | 27 Sept 2025, 17:40 | 1,325 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 27 Sept 2025, 12:0727 Sept 2025 | 27 Sept 2025, 12:31 | 6,250 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 7 Sept 2025, 11:477 Sept 2025 | 7 Sept 2025, 12:08 | 1,275 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 7 Sept 2025, 10:287 Sept 2025 | 7 Sept 2025, 11:07 | 3,975 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 3 Sept 2025, 13:443 Sept 2025 | 3 Sept 2025, 14:09 | 1,375 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 3 Sept 2025, 11:153 Sept 2025 | 3 Sept 2025, 11:38 | 4,250 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 31 Aug 2025, 17:1231 Aug 2025 | 31 Aug 2025, 17:26 | 1,500 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 31 Aug 2025, 09:5931 Aug 2025 | 31 Aug 2025, 10:13 | 7,225 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 25 Aug 2025, 16:4525 Aug 2025 | 25 Aug 2025, 16:51 | 1,350 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 25 Aug 2025, 12:1125 Aug 2025 | 25 Aug 2025, 12:22 | 6,700 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 15 Aug 2025, 13:1515 Aug 2025 | 15 Aug 2025, 13:33 | 1,200 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 15 Aug 2025, 11:4415 Aug 2025 | 15 Aug 2025, 11:55 | 4,675 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 10 Aug 2025, 15:4510 Aug 2025 | 10 Aug 2025, 16:02 | 1,200 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 10 Aug 2025, 12:0310 Aug 2025 | 10 Aug 2025, 12:39 | 9,675 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 4 Aug 2025, 16:284 Aug 2025 | 4 Aug 2025, 16:33 | 1,250 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 31 Jul 2025, 10:2631 Jul 2025 | 31 Jul 2025, 10:33 | 3,275 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 24 Jul 2025, 11:0824 Jul 2025 | 24 Jul 2025, 11:16 | 1,375 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 23 Jul 2025, 08:5623 Jul 2025 | 23 Jul 2025, 09:03 | 3,525 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 17 Jul 2025, 12:0317 Jul 2025 | 17 Jul 2025, 12:22 | 1,375 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 17 Jul 2025, 11:0917 Jul 2025 | 17 Jul 2025, 11:28 | 6,275 ft | no position received |
| HBZVL | route not resolved | 9 Jul 2025, 16:239 Jul 2025 | 9 Jul 2025, 16:39 | 1,200 ft | no position received |