Marsh Ralph L LIGHTNING
N738RM is a Marsh Ralph L LIGHTNING, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2010. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Schertz, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 19, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Marsh Ralph L
- Model
- LIGHTNING
- Serial number
- 84
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Jabiru 3300 · 120 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2010
- Kit
- ARION AIRCRAFT LLC LIGHTNING
- Transponder code
- A9EA46 (octal 52365106)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 17, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 16, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 19, 2022
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01045398
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Miess Kenneth R
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 3457 Rock Hill Vw
Schertz, TX 78154-3644 - Co-owners
- Miess Norma Y
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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 N738RM, 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 Miess Kenneth R, a co-owned, certificate issued December 17, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 19, 2022, 12 years after the 2010 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 84 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N738RM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17270178, cancelled March 5, 1985). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N738RM. 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 September 30, 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