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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Sundquist Steven LIGHTNING
N357SL is a Sundquist Steven LIGHTNING, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2013. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Redding, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 18, 2019 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 10, 2013.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sundquist Steven
- Model
- LIGHTNING
- Serial number
- 48
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Jabiru 3300A · 120 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2013
- Kit
- ARION AIRCRAFT LLC LIGHTNING
- Transponder code
- A40069 (octal 51000151)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 18, 2019
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 10, 2013
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01131710
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ayala Gregory S
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2955 Balaton Ave
Redding, CA 96001-5055
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N357SL links to the rest of the register
- Sundquist Steven 1 aircraft on the register
- Jabiru 3300A 161 aircraft with this engine series · 120 hp
- Redding, CA 193 aircraft registered in this town
- Redding Regional · RDD
- Benton Field · O85
- California 27,686 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N357SL.json.
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The public federal record on N357SL, 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 Ayala Gregory S, an individual, certificate issued July 18, 2019, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 10, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 48 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N357SL 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 N357SL. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data