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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026James Brian Pavlick SLING 4
N98PV is a James Brian Pavlick SLING 4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2022. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rch Palos Vrd, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 30, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 19, 2022.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- James Brian Pavlick
- Model
- SLING 4
- Serial number
- 98
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 914ULS · 115 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2022
- Kit
- AIRPLANE FACTORY SLING 4
- Transponder code
- ADAA24 (octal 53325044)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 30, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 19, 2022
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01326551
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pavlick James B
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2022 W Crestwood St
Rch Palos Vrd, CA 90275-1304
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N98PV links to the rest of the register
- James Brian Pavlick 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 914ULS 24 aircraft with this engine series · 115 hp
- Rch Palos Vrd, CA 59 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,655 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N98PV, 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 Pavlick James B, an individual, certificate issued September 30, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 19, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 98 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N98PV 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 N98PV. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data