Airplane Factory (Pty) Ltd The SLING
N68SK is an Airplane Factory (Pty) Ltd The SLING, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Needville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 27, 2015 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a special flight permit airworthiness certificate for production flight testing, dated August 27, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airplane Factory (Pty) Ltd The
- Model
- SLING · all SLINGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 192
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A90278 (octal 52201170)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 27, 2015
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Special flight permit · Production flight testing · August 27, 2015
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01185058
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schmetter Kenneth E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 22802 Cessna Rd
Needville, TX 77461-9498
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 N68SK, 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 Schmetter Kenneth E, an individual, certificate issued October 27, 2015, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Special flight permit certificate for production flight testing, dated August 27, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 192 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N68SK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Komlodi Edmund R RWM AR CMD ELITE F30 (serial R13-RWM, cancelled November 26, 2008). 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 N68SK. 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