Arion Aircraft Llc LIGHTNING LS-1
N502MA is an Arion Aircraft Llc LIGHTNING LS-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2022. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 16, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated October 16, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Arion Aircraft Llc
- Model
- LIGHTNING LS-1 · all LIGHTNING LS-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 196
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Jabiru 3300A · 120 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A64272 (octal 51441162)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 16, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · October 16, 2022
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 01374214
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- Individual
- Address
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N502MA, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, an individual, certificate issued March 16, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated October 16, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 196 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N502MA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150H (serial 15067576, cancelled September 7, 2016). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N502MA: Accident on April 19, 2002 at Smithville, OH: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150H · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control. A factor was the gusty winds
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC02LA087 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
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