Jonker Sailplanes JS3
N68MF is a Jonker Sailplanes JS3, a glider with no engine, built in 2022. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Savannah, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 13, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated July 1, 2022.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Jonker Sailplanes (South Africa)FAA spelling: JONKER SAILPLANES (PTY) LTD
- Model
- JS3
- Serial number
- 03-136
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · M&D Flugze MD-TJ42 · 350 lb thrust
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A901F7 (octal 52200767)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 13, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 13, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · July 1, 2022
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01365913
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sumner John
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 290 Center Dr Unit B
Savannah, GA 31406-8919
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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
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The public federal record on N68MF, 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 Sumner John, an individual, certificate issued March 13, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated July 1, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 03-136 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N68MF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Quest Aircraft Company Llc KODIAK 100 (serial 100-0058, cancelled August 15, 2012). 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 N68MF: Accident on September 13, 2025 at New Castle, VA: 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 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to properly configure the glider for landing, which resulted in an excessive descent rate during approach, and subsequent collision with trees short of the intended landing area.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA25LA354 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