Smith Donald Joe Jr SMITH SPECIAL SKYBOL
N748JS is a Smith Donald Joe Jr SMITH SPECIAL SKYBOL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2017. It has 2 seats. It is registered to August Aero LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 1, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 25, 2018. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith Donald Joe Jr
- Model
- SMITH SPECIAL SKYBOL
- Serial number
- DJS001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Vedeneyev M14P · 350 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- AA111B (octal 52410433)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 1, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 25, 2018
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01249691
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- August Aero LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1001 S Main St Ste 8007
Kalispell, MT 59901-5635
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Documents on file 1
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The public federal record on N748JS, 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 August Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 1, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 25, 2018, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial DJS001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N748JS according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 28, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N748JS: Accident on June 30, 2019 at Stafford, VA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Skybolt SMITH SPECIAL SKYBOL · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain the runway heading during an aborted go-around, which resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA19CA434 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data