Sling Aircraft (Pty) Ltd SLING LSA
N248FS is a Sling Aircraft (Pty) Ltd SLING LSA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Airplane Factory INC, a non-citizen corporation in Torrance, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 19, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 2 documents are on file: loan release, bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sling Aircraft (Pty) Ltd
- Model
- SLING LSA · all SLING LSAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 405A
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A24E45 (octal 50447105)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 19, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 19, 2024
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01470758
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Airplane Factory INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporation
- Address
- 3401 Airport Dr
Torrance, CA 90505-6157
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 2
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The public federal record on N248FS, 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 19, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. 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 405A for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N248FS according to the deregistered file. [2]
2 documents received recently: Loan release (September 3, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 23, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N248FS. 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 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