Garrett R Lefevre ARION LIGHTNING
N169WP is a Garrett R Lefevre ARION LIGHTNING, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Tucson, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 25, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Garrett R Lefevre
- Model
- ARION LIGHTNING
- Serial number
- 202
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- ARION AIRCRAFT LLC LIGHTNING
- Transponder code
- A1151F (octal 50212437)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 25, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01400407
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lefevre Garrett R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6954 N Gleneagles Pl
Tucson, AZ 85718-1851
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N169WP, 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 Lefevre Garrett R, an individual, certificate issued May 25, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 202 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N169WP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Deitz Jerry AVID FLYER MK4 (serial 1262-D, cancelled May 6, 2013). 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 N169WP: Accident on October 16, 2010 at Colville, WA: 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: Deitz AVID FLYER MK4 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to compensate for a wind gust and maintain runway alignment during final approach to land, which resulted in an in-flight collision with a tree.
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