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Jmb Aircraft S R O VL-3EH-916
N988GS is a Jmb Aircraft S R O VL-3EH-916, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2024. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Response Mechanics LLC, an LLC in Chesterfield, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 23, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated September 6, 2024.
Where is it now Last seen October 18 at 11:32 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Jmb Aircraft S R O
- Model
- VL-3EH-916 · all VL-3EH-916s and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. This is how the Jmb Aircraft S R O VL-3 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- VL-3-570
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 916 IS · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- ADC983 (octal 53344603)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 23, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 23, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Racing; ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 43 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 6, 2024
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01454933
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Response Mechanics LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1423 Carriage Crossing Ln
Chesterfield, MO 63005-4490
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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
Connections how N988GS links to the rest of the register
- Jmb Aircraft S R O VL-3 51 registered
- Jmb Aircraft S R O 51 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 916 IS 119 aircraft with this engine series · 160 hp
- Response Mechanics LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Chesterfield, MO 136 aircraft registered in this town
- Missouri 5,813 aircraft registered
- Where N988GS is now · Last seen October 18 at 11:32 am.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N988GS.json.
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The public federal record on N988GS, 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 Response Mechanics LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 23, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated September 6, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial VL-3-570 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N988GS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Jeffrey Scholl CINESTAR 6 (serial C6LECZ53D2CD, cancelled September 14, 2018). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N988GS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data