William Beasley LIGHTNING XS
N223WB is a William Beasley LIGHTNING XS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2020. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Longview, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 14, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- William Beasley
- Model
- LIGHTNING XS
- Serial number
- 189
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Titan IOX-370 SERIE · 205 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2020
- Kit
- ARION AIRCRAFT LLC LIGHTNING XS
- Transponder code
- A1EE1C (octal 50367034)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 12, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 12, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 14, 2020
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01311435
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Reaves Joe C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 328 Cox Ln
Longview, TX 75605-7413
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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 N223WB, 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 Reaves Joe C, an individual, certificate issued December 12, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 14, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 189 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N223WB 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 N223WB. 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 August 27, 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