Bernardo C Melendez ARION LIGHTNING
N82KB is a Bernardo C Melendez ARION LIGHTNING, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Seguin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 8, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 30, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bernardo C Melendez
- Model
- ARION LIGHTNING
- Serial number
- 110
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Jabiru 3300A · 120 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2023
- Kit
- ARION AIRCRAFT LLC LIGHTNING
- Transponder code
- AB2F65 (octal 52627545)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 8, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 30, 2024
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01220911
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Melendez Bernado C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 326 Tailwind Dr
Seguin, TX 78155-0746
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N82KB, 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 Melendez Bernado C, an individual, certificate issued September 8, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 30, 2024, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 110 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N82KB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Brandman Dennis K LONG EZ (serial 721, cancelled April 15, 2011). 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 N82KB. 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 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