Smith James J SA-300
N387JS is a Smith James J SA-300, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1990. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Eldridge, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 31, 2018 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 18, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith James J
- Model
- SA-300
- Serial number
- DGA-JS-001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- A47624 (octal 51073044)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 31, 2018
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 18, 1990
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00394431
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith James J Trustee
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 120 Muhs Cir
Eldridge, IA 52748-1349
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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 N387JS, 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 Smith James J Trustee, an individual, certificate issued January 31, 2018, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 18, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial DGA-JS-001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N387JS 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 N387JS. 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 September 30, 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