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N838TB

Cowan Theodore R KOLB SLING SHOT

Valid Alabama

N838TB is a Cowan Theodore R KOLB SLING SHOT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Section, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 13, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 27, 2004.

Aircraft

Maker
Cowan Theodore R
Model
KOLB SLING SHOT
Serial number
SS00-2-00030
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax SEE BOMBADIER
Seats
2
Year built
2004
Kit
NEW KOLB AIRCRAFT KOLB SLING SHOT KIT
Transponder code
AB77BD (octal 52673675)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 13, 2021
Expires
December 31, 2028
Last FAA action
July 1, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · November 27, 2004
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00974067

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Goff George L
Type
Individual
Address
402 County Road 411
Section, AL 35771-8356

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N838TB, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Goff George L, an individual, certificate issued December 13, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 27, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial SS00-2-00030 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N838TB according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N838TB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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