Otterback Nicholas J LIGHTNING
N324AL is an Otterback Nicholas J LIGHTNING, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Martinsville, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 11, 2020 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 28, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Otterback Nicholas J
- Model
- LIGHTNING
- Serial number
- 59
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Jabiru 3300 · 120 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- ARION AIRCRAFT LLC LIGHTNING
- Transponder code
- A37D37 (octal 50676467)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 11, 2020
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 28, 2008
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00471009
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Terry Charles J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1550 Comanche Ln
Martinsville, IN 46151-6875
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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 N324AL, 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 Terry Charles J, an individual, certificate issued June 11, 2020, expires June 30, 2027. 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 59 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N324AL 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 N324AL: Accident on January 30, 2011 at Crescent City, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Otterback Nicholas J LIGHTNING · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate flare and failure to recover from a bounced landing which resulted in a runway excursion.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA11CA153 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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