Tatsuro Watanabe SLING 2
N78TW is a Tatsuro Watanabe SLING 2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2020. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pasco, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 30, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Tatsuro Watanabe
- Model
- SLING 2
- Serial number
- 289K
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2020
- Kit
- AIRPLANE FACTORY SLING 2
- Transponder code
- AA8FEB (octal 52507753)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 12, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 12, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 30, 2020
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01318404
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fairchild Chase
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 2756
Pasco, WA 99302-2756
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N78TW, 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 Fairchild Chase, an individual, certificate issued February 12, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 30, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 289K for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78TW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech B-60 (serial P445, cancelled February 6, 1991). 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]
1 NTSB record under N78TW: Accident on June 20, 1989 at Gaston, SC: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal). 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: Beech B-60 · operated under 091
THE PILOT EXERCISED QUESTIONABLE JUDGEMENT IN INITIATING A FLIGHT INTO AN AREA OF KNOWN THUNDERSTORMS. FURTHER, EITHER DELIBERATELY OR INADVERTANTLY ENTERED A THUNDERSTORM AND OVERSTRESSED THE AIRFRAME STRUCTURE RESULTING IN AN INFLIGHT SEPARATION OF THE AERODYNAMIC SURFACES.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL89FA165 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data