Airplane Factory (Pty) Ltd The SLING
N232SL 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 Nurkka Rick G, a partnership in Gilbert, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 6, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a special flight permit airworthiness certificate for production flight testing, dated April 14, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airplane Factory (Pty) Ltd The
- Model
- SLING · all SLINGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 177
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A21189 (octal 50410611)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 6, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 6, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Special flight permit · Production flight testing · April 14, 2015
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01174274
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nurkka Rick G
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 591 E Cathy Dr
Gilbert, AZ 85296-3596 - Co-owners
- Gustafson Jacob A
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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 N232SL, 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 Nurkka Rick G, a partnership, certificate issued November 6, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Special flight permit certificate for production flight testing, dated April 14, 2015, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 177 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N232SL 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 N232SL: Accident on October 3, 2016 at Torrance, CA: 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: Airplane Factory (PTY) LTD SLING · operated under 091
The student pilot's improper landing flare in crosswind conditions, which resulted in a porpoised hard landing and a runway excursion.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA17CA029 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
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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