Sling Aircraft (Pty) Ltd SLING LSA
N864SL is a Sling Aircraft (Pty) Ltd SLING LSA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Airplane Factory INC, a non-citizen corporation in Torrance, California. The FAA lists the registration as "non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports" (certificate issued March 3, 2022). It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated March 11, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sling Aircraft (Pty) Ltd
- Model
- SLING LSA · all SLING LSAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 330
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- ABDF4E (octal 52757516)
Registration
- Status
- Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports
- Certificate issued
- March 3, 2022
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- January 20, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · March 11, 2022
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01361069
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N864SL, 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.
Registration status is "Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated March 11, 2022, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 330 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N864SL according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N864SL. 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