Darrell Van Buskirk ARION LIGHTNING XS
N320DV is a Darrell Van Buskirk ARION LIGHTNING XS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kingwood, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 19, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 1, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Darrell Van Buskirk
- Model
- ARION LIGHTNING XS
- Serial number
- 198
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Titan IOX-360 SERIE · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Kit
- ARION AIRCRAFT LLC LIGHTNING XS
- Transponder code
- A36EAF (octal 50667257)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 19, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 19, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 1, 2025
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01414280
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Van Buskirk Darrell L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 21800 Highland Glade Ct
Kingwood, TX 77339-2983
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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 N320DV, 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 Van Buskirk Darrell L, an individual, certificate issued March 19, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 1, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 198 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N320DV 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 N320DV. 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