Alexander Schleicher ASH 31 MI
N331JS is an Alexander Schleicher ASH 31 MI, a glider with a rotary engine, built in 2011. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Tehachapi, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated September 12, 2011.
Alexander Schleicher: AS 33 ME
Aircraft
- Maker
- Alexander Schleicher (Germany)FAA spelling: ALEXANDER SCHLEICHER GMBH & CO
- Model
- ASH 31 MI
- Serial number
- 31038
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Rotary, 1 motor · Austro E4 SERIES · 168 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- A39A5F (octal 50715137)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 11, 2021
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · September 12, 2011
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01077856
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Staniforth James A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 22805 Shady Ln
Tehachapi, CA 93561-9501
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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 N331JS, 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 Staniforth James A, an individual, certificate issued January 11, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated September 12, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31038 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N331JS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Embraer EMB-120 (serial 120-035, cancelled February 19, 2003). 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 N331JS. 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