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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Nelsen Lynn LIGHTNING
N13LN is a Nelsen Lynn LIGHTNING, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cleveland, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 16, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 12, 2012.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Nelsen Lynn
- Model
- LIGHTNING
- Serial number
- 141
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Jabiru 3300 · 120 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2012
- Kit
- ARION AIRCRAFT LLC LIGHTNING
- Transponder code
- A079DF (octal 50074737)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 16, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 16, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 12, 2012
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01080966
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hargis Jeffry
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1900 e 300Th St
Cleveland, MO 64734-9171
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N13LN links to the rest of the register
- Nelsen Lynn 1 aircraft on the register
- Jabiru 3300 475 aircraft with this engine series · 120 hp
- Cleveland, MO 5 aircraft registered in this town
- Missouri 5,817 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N13LN.json.
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The public federal record on N13LN, 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 Hargis Jeffry, an individual, certificate issued November 16, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 12, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 141 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N13LN was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Nelsen Lynn H LIGHTNING (serial 60, cancelled September 8, 2011). 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 N13LN: Accident on August 5, 2011 at Frostproof, FL: minor 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: Nelsen Lynn H LIGHTNING · operated under 091
The pilot's premature rotation during takeoff.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data