Andres Ergas VL-3-EH-916
N997ER is an Andres Ergas VL-3-EH-916, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Sportairusa Lc, an LLC in North Little Rock, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 10, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 3 documents are on file: 3 × bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Andres Ergas
- Model
- VL-3-EH-916
- Serial number
- VL-3-688
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- JMB AIRCRAFT S R O VL-3EH-916
- Transponder code
- ADED18 (octal 53366430)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 10, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 10, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01552199
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sportairusa Lc
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 8222 Remount Rd
North Little Rock, AR 72118-2243
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 3
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N997ER, 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 Sportairusa Lc, an LLC, certificate issued July 10, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial VL-3-688 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N997ER was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: DJI PHANTOM 2 VISION + (serial PH645240957, cancelled January 7, 2019). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
3 documents received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (August 17, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 15, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 30, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N997ER. 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 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