Brad Powell SLING TSI
N8865S is a Brad Powell SLING TSI, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Double Rate LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Brad Powell
- Model
- SLING TSI
- Serial number
- 653SQ
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- SLING AIRCRAFT (PTY) LTD SLING TSI
- Transponder code
- AC3737 (octal 53033467)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 13, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 13, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01517054
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Double Rate LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1001 S Main St Ste 49
Kalispell, MT 59901-1498
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8865S, 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 Double Rate LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 13, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. 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 653SQ for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8865S was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Air Tractor Inc AT-301 (serial 3010219, cancelled December 4, 1989); Cessna 150F (serial 15062165, cancelled date not given). 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 N8865S: Accident on March 14, 1987 at Oluskee, OK: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Air Tractor 301 · operated under 137
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW87DPJ04 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