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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Nicholas Otterback LIGHTNING CLASSIC
N767AL is a Nicholas Otterback LIGHTNING CLASSIC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2022. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Canton, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 25, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 26, 2022.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Nicholas Otterback
- Model
- LIGHTNING CLASSIC
- Serial number
- 201
- 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
- 2022
- Kit
- ARION AIRCRAFT LLC LIGHTNING CLASSIC
- Transponder code
- AA5B94 (octal 52455624)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 25, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 5, 2026
- 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 · August 26, 2022
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01360989
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Secor Austin
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 43721 Bannockburn Dr
Canton, MI 48187-2821 - Co-owners
- Wiethe Philip
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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
Connections how N767AL links to the rest of the register
- Nicholas Otterback 2 aircraft on the register
- Jabiru 3300A 161 aircraft with this engine series · 120 hp
- Canton, MI 45 aircraft registered in this town
- Michigan 7,224 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N767AL.json.
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The public federal record on N767AL, 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 Secor Austin, a co-owned, certificate issued November 25, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 26, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 201 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N767AL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Sikorsky S-76A (serial 760030, cancelled February 14, 1991). 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 N767AL: Accident on February 5, 1987 at Angleton, TX: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Sikorsky S-76A · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data
