Shaffer Donald ARION LIGHTNING
N270J is a Shaffer Donald ARION LIGHTNING, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Littleton, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 6, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 12, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Shaffer Donald
- Model
- ARION LIGHTNING
- Serial number
- 00101
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Jabiru 3300 · 120 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A2A744 (octal 50523504)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 6, 2021
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 12, 2010
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01056589
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dawson Thomas K
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 258 Woodland Rd
Littleton, NC 27850-8022
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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 N270J, 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 Dawson Thomas K, an individual, certificate issued October 6, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 00101 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N270J 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]
1 NTSB record under N270J: Accident on August 4, 2016 at Toughkenamon, PA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Shaffer Donald ARION LIGHTNING · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined because examination of the engine did not reveal evidence of any preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation.
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 August 27, 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