Airplane Factory (Pty) Ltd SLING 4
N981RW is an Airplane Factory (Pty) Ltd SLING 4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2014. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rio Verde, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 17, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 14, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airplane Factory (Pty) Ltd
- Model
- SLING 4
- Serial number
- 057K
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 914UL · 115 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- ADB067 (octal 53330147)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 17, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 17, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · April 14, 2015
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01165028
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ruttler James L JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 18406 E Cobre Way
Rio Verde, AZ 85263-6014
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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 N981RW, 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 Ruttler James L JR, an individual, certificate issued January 17, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated April 14, 2015, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 057K for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N981RW 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 N981RW. 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