Arion Aircraft Llc LIGHTNING LS-1
N81DJ is an Arion Aircraft Llc LIGHTNING LS-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 20, 2020 and expires on March 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated April 30, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Arion Aircraft Llc
- Model
- LIGHTNING LS-1 · all LIGHTNING LS-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 42
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Jabiru 3300 · 120 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- AB0757 (octal 52603527)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 20, 2020
- Expires
- March 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · April 30, 2010
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01044402
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lamb Glenn
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 140 Kenzgar Dr
Myrtle Beach, SC 29588-9372
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N81DJ, 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 Lamb Glenn, an individual, certificate issued March 20, 2020, expires March 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated April 30, 2010, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N81DJ according to the deregistered file. [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 N81DJ: Accident on April 10, 2020 at Mount Pleasant, SC: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Arion Aircraft LLC Lightning LS-1 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from trees at the end of the runway due to spatial disorientation during initial climb in dark night conditions. Also causal was the flight instructor’s inadequate monitoring, which did not identify and prevent the descent and subsequent collision with trees.
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- 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