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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Sling Aircraft (Pty) Ltd SLING LSA
N5678B is a Sling Aircraft (Pty) Ltd SLING LSA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2022. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Aviation Financial CORP, a non-citizen corporation in Torrance, California. The FAA lists the registration as "non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports" (certificate issued March 22, 2023). It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated September 28, 2022. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sling Aircraft (Pty) Ltd
- Model
- SLING LSA · all SLING LSAs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Sling Aircraft (Pty) Ltd SLING LSA family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 333
- 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 · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A7445D (octal 51642135)
Registration
- Status
- Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reportsFAA registration status code N (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 22, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 20, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 28, 2022
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01375797
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aviation Financial CORP
- 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
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N5678B links to the rest of the register
- Sling Aircraft (Pty) Ltd SLING LSA 105 registered
- Sling Aircraft (Pty) Ltd 106 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912 IS 878 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Aviation Financial CORP 26 aircraft in the fleet
- Torrance, CA 303 aircraft registered in this town
- Zamperini Field · TOA
- California 27,897 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N5678B.json.
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The public federal record on N5678B, 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.
Registration status is "Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated September 28, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 333 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5678B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182 (serial 33678, cancelled February 28, 2011). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (October 5, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N5678B: Accident on May 10, 1988 at Raeford, NC: serious 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: Cessna 182 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data