Jonker Sailplanes JS3
N163JS is a Jonker Sailplanes JS3, a glider with no engine, built in 2019. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Ruegger Engineering CO, a corporation in Thompsons Station, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated April 27, 2019.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Jonker Sailplanes (South Africa)FAA spelling: JONKER SAILPLANES (PTY) LTD
- Model
- JS3
- Serial number
- 03-033
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · M&D Flugze MD-TJ42 · 350 lb thrust
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- A0FDAC (octal 50176654)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · April 27, 2019
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01291778
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ruegger Engineering CO
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1796 Cayce Springs Rd
Thompsons Station, TN 37179-9733
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N163JS, 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 Ruegger Engineering CO, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated April 27, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 03-033 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N163JS 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 N163JS. 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