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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Sling Aircraft (Pty) Ltd SLING LSA
N96PF is a Sling Aircraft (Pty) Ltd SLING LSA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Pacific Flight Academy LLC, an LLC in Honolulu, Hawaii. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 14, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated June 16, 2025.
Where is it now Last seen Friday at 2:47 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sling Aircraft (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 Sling Aircraft (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
- 435A
- 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 · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- AD5B18 (octal 53255430)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 14, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 11, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 16, 2025
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01506780
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pacific Flight Academy LLC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 14 Lagoon Dr
Honolulu, HI 96819-1813
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
Connections how N96PF links to the rest of the register
- Sling Aircraft (Pty) Ltd SLING LSA 105 registered
- Sling Aircraft (Pty) Ltd 106 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912 IS 876 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Pacific Flight Academy LLC 19 aircraft in the fleet
- Honolulu, HI 238 aircraft registered in this town
- Daniel K Inouye International · HNL
- Hawaii 696 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: Switch, failed · 1996-02-20
- Where N96PF is now · Last seen Friday at 2:47 pm.
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The public federal record on N96PF, 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 Pacific Flight Academy LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 14, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated June 16, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 435A for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N96PF was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Raytheon Aircraft Company C90GT (serial LJ-1806, cancelled December 7, 2010); Piper PA-28-161 (serial 28-8116266, cancelled February 13, 2003). 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 N96PF: Accident on July 14, 2002 at Purcell, OK: minor injuries, destroyed. 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: Piper PA-28-161 · operated under 091
The in-flight cabin fire as result of non-compliance with an AD and a Service Bulletin. A contributing factor to the accident was night conditions.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data