Jonker Sailplanes JS3 RES
N37JG is a Jonker Sailplanes JS3 RES, a glider powered by electric motors. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Elbert, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 17, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Jonker Sailplanes: JS3 RES electric self-launch
Aircraft
- Maker
- Jonker Sailplanes (South Africa)FAA spelling: JONKER SAILPLANES (PTY) LTD
- Model
- JS3 RES
- Serial number
- 03-179
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Electric, 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A43241 (octal 51031101)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 17, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01407875
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gillis John H
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 24866 Ben Kelly Rd
Elbert, CO 80106-9524
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N37JG, 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 Gillis John H, an individual, certificate issued October 17, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
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. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 03-179 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N37JG was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Garrison James W P5151 (serial 0001, cancelled July 13, 2017). 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]
1 NTSB record under N37JG: Accident on June 16, 2024 at Elbert, CO: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Jonker Sailplanes (PTY) LTD JS3 RES · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing with a right crosswind.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN24LA224 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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