Alan Hoekstra SLING TSI
N556AM is an Alan Hoekstra SLING TSI, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2025. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mission Viejo, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 2, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 25, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Alan Hoekstra
- Model
- SLING TSI
- Serial number
- 553SK
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 916 IS · 160 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2025
- Kit
- SLING AIRCRAFT (PTY) LTD SLING TSI
- Transponder code
- A715C1 (octal 51612701)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 2, 2026
- Expires
- October 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 2, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 25, 2025
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01497572
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hoekstra Alan J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 27201 Cordero Ln
Mission Viejo, CA 92691-6213
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N556AM, 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 Hoekstra Alan J, an individual, certificate issued October 2, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 25, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 553SK for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N556AM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Eurocopter AS 350 B2 (serial 4369, cancelled October 6, 2022). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N556AM. 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