{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-09-19","city":"TORRANCE","country_code":"US","county_code":"037","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Loan release","doc_type_code":"REL","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-03"},{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-23"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2031-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-09-19","maker":"Sling Aircraft (Pty) Ltd","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SLING AIRCRAFT (PTY) LTD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"06001CM","mode_s_code":"50447105","mode_s_hex":"A24E45","model":"SLING LSA","n_number":"N248FS","name":"AIRPLANE FACTORY INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N248FS is a Sling Aircraft (Pty) Ltd SLING LSA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Airplane Factory INC, a non-citizen corporation in Torrance, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 19, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 2 documents are on file: loan release, bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Airplane Factory INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued September 19, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 405A for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N248FS according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"2 documents received recently: Loan release (September 3, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 23, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N248FS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Non-citizen corporation","registrant_type_code":"8","seats":2,"serial_number":"405A","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3401 AIRPORT DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01470758","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N248FS","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"905056157"}