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N31BL

Jonker Sailplanes JS3

Valid Electric gliderAlabama

N31BL is a Jonker Sailplanes JS3, a glider with no engine, built in 2016. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Mobile, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 20, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated February 11, 2019.

Jonker Sailplanes: JS3 RES electric self-launch

Aircraft

Maker
Jonker Sailplanes (South Africa)
FAA spelling: JONKER SAILPLANES (PTY) LTD
Model
JS3
Serial number
03-001
Type
Glider
Power
None · M&D Flugze MD-TJ42 · 350 lb thrust
Seats
1
Year built
2016
Transponder code
A3449C (octal 50642234)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 20, 2021
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
February 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · February 11, 2019
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
01275057

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Butler Charles R III
Type
Individual
Address
60 Oakland Ave
Mobile, AL 36608-2500

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 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 2

2012-09-06Leak Bob AVID FLYER · Registration pending, canceled
1981-03-12Bell 206B · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data