Sla Aviation Llc SPORTSMAN GS-2
N117SA is a Sla Aviation Llc SPORTSMAN GS-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2016. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 14, 2018 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 1, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sla Aviation Llc
- Model
- SPORTSMAN GS-2
- Serial number
- 7446
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming YIO-390 SER · 210 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2016
- Kit
- GLASAIR AVIATION USA LLC SPORTSMAN GS-2
- Transponder code
- A047C5 (octal 50043705)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 14, 2018
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 13, 2024
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 1, 2016
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01232668
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alperin Scott L
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 2738 Bronc Buster Loop
Steamboat Springs, CO 80487-1845
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
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The public federal record on N117SA, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Alperin Scott L, an individual, certificate issued November 14, 2018, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 1, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7446 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N117SA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cirrus Design Corp SR22 (serial 3728, cancelled February 22, 2011); Pilatus PC-6/B2-H2 (serial 778, cancelled April 29, 1996). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N117SA: Accident on November 15, 2005 at Southampton, NY: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 208 · operated under 091
The flight instructor's improper flare and his inadequate remedial action, which resulted in a hard landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data