Van Grouw R / Cantrell L WHITE LIGHTNING
N25WL is a Van Grouw R / Cantrell L WHITE LIGHTNING, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1992. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 24, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 21, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Van Grouw R / Cantrell L
- Model
- WHITE LIGHTNING
- Serial number
- 25
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-360 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- A25724 (octal 50453444)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 24, 2020
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 21, 2002
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00965521
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schein William
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1 Oso Ct
Santa Fe, NM 87506-0081
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N25WL, 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 Schein William, an individual, certificate issued February 24, 2020, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 21, 2002, 10 years after the 1992 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 25 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N25WL 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]
2 NTSB records under N25WL: Accident on August 6, 2023 at Las Vegas, NM: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 6, 1999 at Greenfield, IN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Van Grouw R / Cantrell L WHITE LIGHTNING · operated under 091
A reported partial loss of engine power during cruise flight for undetermined reasons.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Van Grouw WHITE LIGHTNING · operated under 091
improper installation of the oil quick drain plug which resulted in oil exhaustion to the engine. A factor was the corn crop encountered during the forced landing.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data