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N76KM

Jmb Aircraft S R O VL-3EH-915

Valid Arizona

N76KM is a Jmb Aircraft S R O VL-3EH-915, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2024. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Tucson, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 20, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 13, 2024.

Aircraft

Maker
Jmb Aircraft S R O
Model
VL-3EH-915 · all VL-3EH-915s and related versions
Serial number
VL-3-575
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 915 IS · 135 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2024
Transponder code
AA401C (octal 52440034)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 20, 2024
Expires
August 31, 2031
Last FAA action
August 20, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · September 13, 2024
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01466391

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hodes Michael
Type
Individual
Address
6701 Montezuma Dr
Tucson, AZ 85718

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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

2014-12-18Bell 206L-3 · Registration expired, pending cancellation

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N76KM, 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 Hodes Michael, an individual, certificate issued August 20, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated September 13, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial VL-3-575 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N76KM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206L-3 (serial 51103, cancelled December 18, 2014). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N76KM: Accident on June 2, 1989 at Big Timber, MT: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

DEN89MA130Accident on June 2, 1989 at Big Timber, MT: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 51103

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 206L-3 · operated under 135

FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT DURING TAKEOFF, DUE TO SPATIAL DISORIENTATION, WHICH RESULTED IN A COLLISION WITH THE TERRAIN. CONTRIBUTING FACTORS WERE: DARK NIGHT, PILOT'S VISUAL PERCEPTION, INADEQUATE INITIAL TRAINING OF THE PILOT BY THE OPERATOR, THE PILOT'S LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH THE GEOGRAPHICAL AREA, AND THE COMPANY'S INSUFFICIENT STANDARDS/REQUIREMENTS.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN89MA130 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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