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N121C

Craig Valentine SLING 4 TSI

N121C is a Craig Valentine SLING 4 TSI, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2020. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Alameda, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 13, 2020.

Aircraft

Maker
Craig Valentine
Model
SLING 4 TSI
Serial number
170SK
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 915 ISC3 A · 141 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2020
Kit
AIRPLANE FACTORY SLING 4 TSI
Transponder code
A0579B (octal 50053633)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 31, 2020
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 13, 2020
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01314871

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Valentine Craig
Type
Individual
Address
2941 Lincoln Ave
Alameda, CA 94501-3009

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 3

2012-10-19Aviat Aircraft Inc S-2C · exported to Australia · Valid registration
1995-03-03Cessna 550 · exported to Cayman Islands · Valid registration
1953-11-12Mooney M-18C · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N121C, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Valentine Craig, an individual, certificate issued July 31, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 13, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 170SK for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N121C was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Aviat Aircraft Inc S-2C (serial 6009, cancelled October 19, 2012); Cessna 550 (serial 5500354, cancelled March 3, 1995); Mooney M-18C (serial 202, cancelled November 12, 1953). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N121C. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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