Airplane Factory (Pty) Ltd The SLING
N166TW is an Airplane Factory (Pty) Ltd The SLING, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2014. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Rch Palos Vrd, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 20, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated November 7, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airplane Factory (Pty) Ltd The
- Model
- SLING · all SLINGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 161
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A109B6 (octal 50204666)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 20, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 20, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · November 7, 2014
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01162255
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sarner Jason L
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 10 Cayuse Ln
Rch Palos Vrd, CA 90275-5172 - Co-owners
- Sarner Daniel
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N166TW, 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 Sarner Jason L, a co-owned, certificate issued May 20, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated November 7, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 161 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N166TW according to the deregistered file. [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 N166TW: Accident on April 9, 2026 at Avalon, CA: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Airplane Factory (PTY) LTD The SLING · operated under 091
On April 09, 2026, about 1224 Pacific daylight time, an Airplane Factory (Pty) Ltd. Sling 2 airplane, N166TW, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Avalon, California. The pilot and pilot-rated passenger were fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot and pilot-rated passenger departed Zamperini Field Airport (TOA), Torrance, California, at 1153 on a personal flight to Santa Catalina Island, California. Preliminary Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data showed that the air…
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data