Sundquist 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sundquist Steven
- Model
- LIGHTNING
- Serial number
- 48
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Jabiru 3300A · 120 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2013
- Kit
- ARION AIRCRAFT LLC LIGHTNING
- Transponder code
- A40069 (octal 51000151)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 18, 2019
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 10, 2013
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01131710
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ayala Gregory S
- Type
- Individual
- 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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
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 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