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Jetco

Personal watercraft dealer and aftermarket maker in Cycle News's description of 1988, whose short-body pipes another pipe maker's 1990 flyer lists among those its silencer fits.

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Printed above the facts, 1987 and 1988. 2 facts have no year printed above them and mark no box.

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What it made and sold

1988 · Likely

A passage of Personal Watercraft Illustrated's February 1988 issue, read through the Internet Archive's search, offers to send a free 16 page Jetco catalogue. The passage does not show the sender's place, so reading it as this business rests on the name.

Sources: PWI February 1988 trade probes

Likely

A Factory Pipe Products flyer, dated by the Internet Archive to 1990, names Jetco among the makers of aftermarket short-body watercraft pipes that its silencer is said to fit. A private seller's classified in Cycle News of 6 June 1990 offers a 1984 Jet Ski 550 with a Jetco pipe, head, ride plate, bars and prop; the line does not make clear whether the name covers more than the pipe. Reading either Jetco as this business rests on the name and the goods and is the archive's inference.

Sources: Factory Pipe flyer 1990; Cycle News 6 June 1990 classified

Patents and trademarks

1987 · Likely

USPTO records an application to register JETCO, in stylised letters, for personal watercraft products and sales, filed on 13 July 1987 by an individual and abandoned (dated 18 April 1988) because the applicant failed to respond, or responded late, to an Office action; it never registered. The applicant's name is the name signed for Jetco in Cycle News of 8 June 1988, so reading the application as this business's rests on that name and the goods, and is the archive's inference.

Sources: USPTO record serial 73671869; Cycle News 8 June 1988

The business on record

1988 · Likely

Cycle News of 8 June 1988 prints a letter signed for Jetco and, under it, the editor's note that Jetco is a personal watercraft dealer and manufacturer of aftermarket products for personal watercraft. The letter's subject is not used here.

Sources: Cycle News 8 June 1988

Likely

Granite Bay Jet Ski, a 1994 computerized business simulation for accounting courses, prints JETCO of Sacramento in the lines just before its preface heading, read only through the Internet Archive's search; the passage does not show why. Reading it as this business rests on the name and on the personal name printed beside it, which is the one signed for Jetco in 1988, and is the archive's inference.

Sources: Granite Bay Jet Ski 1994 preface; Cycle News 8 June 1988

Names as printed

JETCO (USPTO record serial 73671869); JETCO of Sacramento (Granite Bay Jet Ski 1994 preface)

Elsewhere in the archive

• History chapter: The aftermarket: exhaust pipes and engine parts
• Era: The early years, in print
• Era: The makers and their machines

What the archive has not read (3)

• No document gives a founder or a founding year for Jetco (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-18).
• The register's search record gives the applicant's claimed first use of JETCO as 31 March 1980; the status page the archive holds prints no first-use date, and a claimed first use is the applicant's word in any case (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-18).
• No held document shows Jetco trading after 1990 (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-18).

Documents cited on this page

• Cycle News 8 June 1988 (archive.org): Cycle News, 8 June 1988 (archive.org OCR, excerpt: letter signed Cliff Jones, Jetco), Cycle News, issue held by the Internet Archive, 1988-06-08; enthusiast media, medium. The signature of a letter in the letters column, CLIFF JONES and Jetco, and the editor's note under it that Jetco is a personal watercraft dealer and manufacturer of aftermarket products for personal watercraft. Medium as a period magazine for what it prints of the signature and its own note; the note is the magazine's description of the business. Only the signature and the editor's note are held, and nothing else from the letter is used. First read on 2026-10-07 (set 3 batch J).
• PWI February 1988 trade probes (archive.org): Personal Watercraft Illustrated volume 2 number 1 of 1988 (read through archive.org's full-text search for trade names), Personal Watercraft Illustrated, read through the Internet Archive's full-text search, 1988; enthusiast media, medium. A second set of OCR passages from the same emptied item as the PWI February 1988 search text, one query per trade name: a Team Butch advertisement, a reference to a team backed by Performance Jet Ski, a Jetco catalogue offer and an Ocean Pro advertisement. Short passages with the OCR's errors, not articles. Medium; the phone numbers in the passages are replaced in the held copy. The link opens the item's archive.org page; the passages were read through the full-text search, as the held copy says.
• Factory Pipe flyer 1990 (archive.org): Factory Pipe Products, Pipe Dream (promotional flyer, 1990; archive.org OCR), Factory Pipe Products, held by the Internet Archive, 1990; manufacturer primary, medium. A promotional flyer, undated in its text but quoting magazine tests of July and August 1990, for a Kawasaki 550 pipe and a silencer. Its fitment line names aftermarket pipe makers by brand. Medium for what the advertisement prints, including the brand names; its performance claims and testimonials are the company's and are not used. The OCR is partly broken and the phone numbers are replaced in the held copy.
• Cycle News 6 June 1990 classified (archive.org): Cycle News, 6 June 1990 (archive.org OCR, excerpt: a private seller's classified advertisement naming a Jetco pipe), Cycle News, issue held by the Internet Archive, 1990-06-06; enthusiast media, low. A private seller's classified advertisement offering, among other vehicles, a 1984 Jet Ski 550 with a Jetco pipe, head, ride plate, bars and prop. Low: a seller's line read as OCR, which shows the name on a used craft's parts in 1990 and nothing about the business; the line does not make clear whether Jetco qualifies only the pipe. The seller's name and telephone numbers are not in the held copy.
• USPTO record serial 73671869 (tsdr.uspto.gov): Trademark Status and Document Retrieval record, serial 73671869 (JETCO, application abandoned), United States Patent and Trademark Office, 1987-07-13; government, high. JETCO, a design mark in stylised letters, filed 13 July 1987 for personal watercraft products and sales, abandoned on 18 April 1988 for failure to respond to an Office action; it never registered. The owner is printed as an individual. The status page prints no first-use date; the register's search record gives a claimed first use of 31 March 1980, the applicant's own claim. The published date is the filing date. High for what the register records; an applicant is the person who asked for the mark, not a finding that the mark was in use or that the business traded.
• Granite Bay Jet Ski 1994 preface (archive.org): Granite Bay Jet Ski, level one: a computerized business simulation for use with Principles of Accounting and Financial Accounting (1994), preface acknowledgement (read through archive.org's full-text search), Granite Bay Jet Ski (1994 textbook supplement), read through the Internet Archive's full-text search, 1994; editorial, low. An accounting textbook's business simulation set at a personal watercraft business, a lending book, so it could be read only through the full-text search. The passage just before the heading PREFACE thanks, among others, two people of JETCO of Sacramento; the passage does not show what they are thanked for. Low: one acknowledgement line read out of context. The 1994 date is the item record's.

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