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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Airplane Factory (Pty) Ltd SLING LSA
N861SL is an Airplane Factory (Pty) Ltd SLING LSA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Aviation Financial CORP, a non-citizen corporation in Torrance, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 30, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Airplane Factory (Pty) Ltd
- Model
- SLING LSA · all SLING LSAs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Airplane Factory (Pty) Ltd SLING LSA family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 286
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ABD429 (octal 52752051)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 30, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01307665
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aviation Financial CORP
- Type
- Non-citizen corporationFAA type of owner code 8 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3401 Airport Dr
Torrance, CA 90505-6157
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
Connections how N861SL links to the rest of the register
- Airplane Factory (Pty) Ltd SLING LSA 18 registered
- Airplane Factory (Pty) Ltd 23 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Aviation Financial CORP 26 aircraft in the fleet
- Torrance, CA 303 aircraft registered in this town
- Zamperini Field · TOA
- California 27,897 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N861SL.json.
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The public federal record on N861SL, 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 Aviation Financial CORP, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued September 30, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 286 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N861SL according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (October 5, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N861SL. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data