Nelsen 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Nelsen Lynn
- Model
- LIGHTNING
- Serial number
- 141
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Jabiru 3300 · 120 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2012
- Kit
- ARION AIRCRAFT LLC LIGHTNING
- Transponder code
- A079DF (octal 50074737)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 16, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 16, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 12, 2012
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01080966
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hargis Jeffry
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1900 E 300Th St
Cleveland, MO 64734-9171
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 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 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
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data