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N96FJ

Clay Jones SLING TSI

Valid Texas

N96FJ is a Clay Jones SLING TSI, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2024. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Nacogdoches, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 16, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 1, 2024.

Aircraft

Maker
Clay Jones
Model
SLING TSI
Serial number
492SK
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 915 IS · 135 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2024
Kit
SLING AIRCRAFT (PTY) LTD SLING TSI
Transponder code
AD5A53 (octal 53255123)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 16, 2025
Expires
August 31, 2032
Last FAA action
August 16, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · November 1, 2024
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01474002

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Clayton Jones S
Type
Individual
Address
8063 Fm 1638
Nacogdoches, TX 75964-1848

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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 N96FJ, 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 Clayton Jones S, an individual, certificate issued August 16, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 1, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 492SK for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N96FJ 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 N96FJ. 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 September 30, 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