Jonker Sailplanes JS3
N9172T is a Jonker Sailplanes JS3, a glider with no engine, built in 2019. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Palmdale, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 1, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated April 11, 2019.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Jonker Sailplanes (South Africa)FAA spelling: JONKER SAILPLANES (PTY) LTD
- Model
- JS3
- Serial number
- 03-032
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- ACB35C (octal 53131534)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 1, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 1, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · April 11, 2019
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01291776
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rogers Walter A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 39937 Milan Dr
Palmdale, CA 93551-4804
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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 2
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The public federal record on N9172T, 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 Rogers Walter A, an individual, certificate issued May 1, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated April 11, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 03-032 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9172T was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-25-235 (serial 25-7856024, cancelled June 22, 2010); Cessna 180C (serial 50672, cancelled May 3, 1960). 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 N9172T: Accident on August 8, 2026 at Tehachapi, CA: 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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR26LA299 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