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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Strahan William Allen LIGHTNING
N197RW is a Strahan William Allen LIGHTNING, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 7, 2026.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Strahan William Allen
- Model
- LIGHTNING
- Serial number
- 75
- 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
- 2008
- Kit
- ARION AIRCRAFT LLC LIGHTNING
- Transponder code
- A183B8 (octal 50301670)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 16, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 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 · May 7, 2026
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01016334
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Casto Donald e
- 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
- 327 Sugarland Dr
Point Pleasant, WV 25550-4335
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N197RW links to the rest of the register
- Strahan William Allen 1 aircraft on the register
- Jabiru 3300 475 aircraft with this engine series · 120 hp
- Point Pleasant, WV 4 aircraft registered in this town
- Mason County · 3I2
- West Virginia 884 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N197RW.json.
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The public federal record on N197RW, 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 Casto Donald e, an individual, certificate issued September 16, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 7, 2026, 18 years after the 2008 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 75 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N197RW 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 N197RW. 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 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
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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data