Lee J Smallsreed Iii LIGHTNING
N161LS is a Lee J Smallsreed Iii LIGHTNING, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2013. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Prescott, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 15, 2016 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 14, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lee J Smallsreed Iii
- Model
- LIGHTNING
- Serial number
- 138
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Jabiru 3300 · 120 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2013
- Kit
- ARION AIRCRAFT LLC LIGHTNING
- Transponder code
- A0F670 (octal 50173160)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 15, 2016
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 14, 2013
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01121531
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smallsreed Lee J III
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2070 Plateau
Prescott, AZ 86305-2168
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N161LS, 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 Smallsreed Lee J III, an individual, certificate issued August 15, 2016, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 14, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 138 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N161LS according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N161LS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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