{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-04-13","city":"KALISPELL","country_code":"US","county_code":"029","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2033-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"SLING AIRCRAFT (PTY) LTD","kit_model":"SLING TSI","last_action_date":"2026-04-13","maker":"Brad Powell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BRAD POWELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05643FA","mode_s_code":"53033467","mode_s_hex":"AC3737","model":"SLING TSI","n_number":"N8865S","name":"DOUBLE RATE LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"OLUSKEE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1987-03-14","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"FTW87DPJ04","probable_cause":"","registration":"N8865S","state":"OK","summary":"Accident on March 14, 1987 at Oluskee, OK: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8865S is a Brad Powell SLING TSI, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Double Rate LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Double Rate LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 13, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. 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 653SQ for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8865S was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Air Tractor Inc AT-301 (serial 3010219, cancelled December 4, 1989); Cessna 150F (serial 15062165, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N8865S: Accident on March 14, 1987 at Oluskee, OK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"653SQ","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1001 S MAIN ST STE 49","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01517054","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8865S","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"599011498"}