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N39AB

Jonker Sailplanes JS3

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N39AB is a Jonker Sailplanes JS3, a glider with turbojet engines, built in 2019. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Aero Systems Associates LLC, an LLC in San Carlos, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 25, 2019 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated August 9, 2019.

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Aircraft

Maker
Jonker Sailplanes (South Africa)
FAA spelling: JONKER SAILPLANES (PTY) LTD
Model
JS3
Serial number
03-051
Type
Glider
Power
Turbojet, 1 motor · M&D Flugze MD-TJ42 · 350 lb thrust
Seats
1
Year built
2019
Transponder code
A48072 (octal 51100162)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 25, 2019
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · August 9, 2019
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01298138

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Aero Systems Associates LLC
Type
LLC
Address
594 Club Dr
San Carlos, CA 94070-1501

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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

2007-06-13Cessna A185F · exported to Canada · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N39AB, 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 Aero Systems Associates LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 25, 2019, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated August 9, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 03-051 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N39AB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna A185F (serial 18504116, cancelled June 13, 2007). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N39AB. 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