Thomas E West LIGHTNING XS
N77PW is a Thomas E West LIGHTNING XS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2020. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kinnelon, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 6, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 31, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Thomas E West
- Model
- LIGHTNING XS
- Serial number
- 188
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Titan IOX-340 SERIE · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2020
- Kit
- ARION AIRCRAFT LLC LIGHTNING XS
- Transponder code
- AA6808 (octal 52464010)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 6, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 6, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 31, 2020
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01303680
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gmelin Reinhard Guenther
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 16 Leone Ter
Kinnelon, NJ 07405-2521
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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
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The public federal record on N77PW, 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 Gmelin Reinhard Guenther, an individual, certificate issued November 6, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 31, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 188 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N77PW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Christen Industries Inc PITTS S-2B (serial 5181, cancelled August 10, 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 N77PW: Accident on August 10, 1991 at Scappoose, OR: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Christen Industries PITTS S-2B · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S MISJUDGMENT OF ALTITUDE, WHILE PERFORMING AN AEROBATIC MANEUVER, AND HIS FAILURE TO MAINTAIN GROUND CLEARANCE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA91FA203 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data