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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Joseph Keenan SLING HW
N212HW is a Joseph Keenan SLING HW, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Airplane Factory INC, a non-citizen corporation in Torrance, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 28, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Joseph Keenan
- Model
- SLING HW
- Serial number
- 131GQ
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- SLING AIRCRAFT (PTY) LTD SLING HW
- Transponder code
- A1C1B4 (octal 50340664)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 28, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 28, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01561389
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Airplane Factory INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporationFAA type of owner code 8 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3401 Airport Dr
Torrance, CA 90505-6157
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N212HW links to the rest of the register
- Joseph Keenan 1 aircraft on the register
- Airplane Factory INC 49 aircraft in the fleet
- Torrance, CA 300 aircraft registered in this town
- Zamperini Field · TOA
- California 28,134 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N212HW.json.
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The public federal record on N212HW, 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 Airplane Factory INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued September 28, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 131GQ for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N212HW 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N212HW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data