Sling Aircraft (Pty) Ltd SLING LSA
N81BV is a Sling Aircraft (Pty) Ltd SLING LSA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2024. 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 July 9, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated July 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
- 395A
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- AB0730 (octal 52603460)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 9, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 9, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · July 22, 2024
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01460677
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
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The public federal record on N81BV, 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 July 9, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated July 22, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 395A for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N81BV according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Loan release (September 3, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N81BV. 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