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N196TM

Jonker Sailplanes JS1-C

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N196TM is a Jonker Sailplanes JS1-C, a glider with no engine, built in 2016. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 30, 2019 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated May 13, 2016.

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Aircraft

Maker
Jonker Sailplanes (South Africa)
FAA spelling: JONKER SAILPLANES (PTY) LTD
Model
JS1-C
Serial number
1C-096
Type
Glider
Power
None
Seats
1
Year built
2016
Transponder code
A1802A (octal 50300052)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 30, 2019
Expires
April 30, 2029
Last FAA action
July 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · May 13, 2016
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
01215390

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Osoba William G JR
Type
Co-owned
Address
211 N Broadview St
Wichita, KS 67208-3814
Co-owners
Osoba Christine S

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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 N196TM, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Osoba William G JR, a co-owned, certificate issued April 30, 2019, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated May 13, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1C-096 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N196TM according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N196TM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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