J Charles T Lightner 300LS
N814ME is a J Charles T Lightner 300LS, a rotorcraft with a four-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The FAA lists the registration as "n-number assigned, not registered, pending cancellation". No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- J Charles T Lightner
- Model
- 300LS
- Serial number
- 2002
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- VERTICAL AVIATION TECHNOLOGIES HUMMINGBIRD 300LS
- Transponder code
- AB1950 (octal 52614520)
Registration
- Status
- N-number assigned, not registered, pending cancellation
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01542127
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- —
- 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 · 4 to understand · 1 clear
The public federal record on N814ME, 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.
Registration status is "N-number assigned, not registered, pending cancellation". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N814ME was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-81(MD-81) (serial 48010, cancelled August 13, 2013). 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 N814ME: Accident on August 7, 2003 at Greeley, CO: serious injuries. 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: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-81 · operated under 121
the inflight encounter with severe turbulence.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN03LA142 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