Pope Phil LIGHTNING
N439EP is a Pope Phil LIGHTNING, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 2010. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fayette, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 13, 2012 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 26, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pope Phil
- Model
- LIGHTNING
- Serial number
- TTS 040
- Type
- Weight-shift control
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 DCDI · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2010
- Transponder code
- A544FF (octal 51242377)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 13, 2012
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 26, 2011
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01067141
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nolen Charles W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 298
Fayette, AL 35555-0298
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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 N439EP, 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 Nolen Charles W, an individual, certificate issued November 13, 2012, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 26, 2011, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TTS 040 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N439EP 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 N439EP. 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