Sling Aircraft (Pty) Ltd SLING LSA
N638SS is a Sling Aircraft (Pty) Ltd SLING LSA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2023. 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 February 14, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated February 22, 2024. 1 document is on file: loan release.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sling Aircraft (Pty) Ltd
- Model
- SLING LSA · all SLING LSAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 380A
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A85D15 (octal 52056425)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 14, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 14, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · February 22, 2024
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01439879
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Airplane Factory INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporation
- Address
- 3401 Airport Dr
Torrance, CA 90505-6157
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Documents on file 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N638SS, 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 February 14, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated February 22, 2024, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 380A for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N638SS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grumman G-73 (serial J38, cancelled October 29, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Loan release (September 3, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N638SS. 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