Otterback Nicholas L LIGHTNING
N106AL is an Otterback Nicholas L LIGHTNING, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 21, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 2, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Otterback Nicholas L
- Model
- LIGHTNING
- Serial number
- 111
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Jabiru 3300 · 120 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2011
- Kit
- ARION AIRCRAFT LLC LIGHTNING
- Transponder code
- A01B09 (octal 50015411)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 21, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 2, 2011
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01063316
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Murphy Peter
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 59 Rito Guicu
Santa Fe, NM 87507-4321
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 1
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The public federal record on N106AL, 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 Murphy Peter, an individual, certificate issued February 21, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 2, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 111 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N106AL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 412EP (serial 36378, cancelled February 23, 2006). 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]
1 NTSB record under N106AL: Accident on May 1, 2019 at Woodland, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Otterback Lightning · operated under 091
A complete loss of engine power due to carburetor icing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data