{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2019-04-11","airworthiness_ops":"Racing; Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-05-01","city":"PALMDALE","country_code":"US","county_code":"037","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2032-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-05-01","maker":"Jonker Sailplanes","maker_country":"ZA","maker_raw":"JONKER SAILPLANES (PTY) LTD","maker_segment":"Electric glider","mfr_mdl_code":"05637Y4","mode_s_code":"53131534","mode_s_hex":"ACB35C","model":"JS3","n_number":"N9172T","name":"ROGERS WALTER A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Tehachapi","damage":"SUBS","date":"2026-08-08","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR26LA299","probable_cause":null,"registration":"N9172T","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on August 8, 2026 at Tehachapi, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"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.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Rogers Walter A, an individual, certificate issued May 1, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated April 11, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 03-032 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N9172T: Accident on August 8, 2026 at Tehachapi, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"03-032","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"39937 MILAN DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01291776","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9172T","watchlist_group":"Electric glider","watchlist_note":"JS3 RES electric self-launch","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2019,"zip":"935514804"}