Airplane Factory (Pty) Ltd SLING LSA
N779SL is an Airplane Factory (Pty) Ltd SLING LSA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2017. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Santa Clarita, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 9, 2018 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated December 5, 2017. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airplane Factory (Pty) Ltd
- Model
- SLING LSA · all SLING LSAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 246
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- AA8C11 (octal 52506021)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 9, 2018
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · December 5, 2017
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01267907
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Del Vecho Peter
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 23942 Windward Ln
Santa Clarita, CA 91355-1798
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
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N779SL, 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 Del Vecho Peter, an individual, certificate issued January 9, 2018, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated December 5, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 246 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N779SL according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 23, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N779SL. 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