Jmb Aircraft S R O VL-3EH-916
N557H is a Jmb Aircraft S R O VL-3EH-916, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to 557H Aviation LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 3, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Jmb Aircraft S R O
- Model
- VL-3EH-916 · all VL-3EH-916s and related versions
- Serial number
- VL-3-710
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A71A1B (octal 51615033)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 3, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 3, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01575713
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- 557H Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1001 S Main St Pmb 700
Kalispell, MT 59901-1498
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 N557H, 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 557H Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 3, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. 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 VL-3-710 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N557H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280C (serial 1043, cancelled May 2, 1997). 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 N557H: Accident on June 15, 1996 at Lambertville, MI: 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: Enstrom 280C · operated under 091
a total loss of engine power as a result of fuel exhaustion due to the pilot's inadequate preflight, and the pilot's misjudged distance/altitude during the subsequent autorotation. A factor was inadequate maintenance and inspection.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI96LA205 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