Jonker Sailplanes JS3 RES
N143FS is a Jonker Sailplanes JS3 RES, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2023. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Atlanta, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 5, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated January 28, 2023.
Jonker Sailplanes: JS3 RES electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Jonker Sailplanes (South Africa)FAA spelling: JONKER SAILPLANES (PTY) LTD
- Model
- JS3 RES
- Serial number
- 03-143
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Electric, 1 motor · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A0AE63 (octal 50127143)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 5, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · January 28, 2023
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01383197
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Silva Fernando
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2235 Dellwood Dr NW
Atlanta, GA 30305-4006
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N143FS, 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 Silva Fernando, an individual, certificate issued January 5, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated January 28, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 03-143 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N143FS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Moravan Z143L (serial 0038, cancelled February 27, 2009). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N143FS. 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