Airplane Factory (Pty) Ltd The SLING
N165TW is an Airplane Factory (Pty) Ltd The SLING, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2016. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Fly Compton Aeronautical Education Foundation, a corporation in Compton, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 25, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated June 1, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airplane Factory (Pty) Ltd The
- Model
- SLING · all SLINGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 201
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- A105FF (octal 50202777)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 25, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 25, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · June 1, 2016
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01210768
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fly Compton Aeronautical Education Foundation
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 101 S Willowbrook Ave Unit 652
Compton, CA 90223-1143
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N165TW, 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 Fly Compton Aeronautical Education Foundation, a corporation, certificate issued March 25, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated June 1, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 201 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N165TW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dassault/Sud FAN JET FALCON (serial 65, cancelled November 16, 2009). 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 N165TW: Accident on December 21, 2008 at Jamestown, NY: no 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: Dassault/Sud FAN JET · operated under 135
The inability to stop the airplane on the remaining runway because of icy runway conditions. A factor was the failure of the drag chute to properly deploy.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA09LA282 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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