Arion Lightning
The Arion Lightning is a light-sport aircraft available as a kit aircraft or as a production Special LSA. Design and development
The Lightning was developed by designers Pete Krotje, Ben Krotje and Nick Otterback. Originally designed as a high speed, low wing composite aircraft for the Jabiru series of engines, the LS-1 was redesigned to meet American light-sport requirements by extending the wings to lower the stall speed and using a fixed pitch propeller. The aircraft is made from composites. In the homebuilt kit version its  span wing has an area of  and mounts flaps. The aircraft's recommended engine power is  and the standard engine used is the  Jabiru 3300 four-stroke powerplant. Construction time from the supplied kit is 600 hours. Operational history
In 2007 Earl Ferguson set a record for the quickest time for a flight from Savannah to San Diego in a piston engine land plane weighing between 1,102 and 2,205 pounds using this aircraft. Variants
Arion Lightning EXP
US Experimental amateur-built category aircraft
Arion Lightning XS
Variant of Lightning EXP supporting up to 160 hp engines, including the Lycoming O-320 and ULPower 390iS. Arion Lightning LS-1
Light-sport aircraft variant with a choice of engines: the  Jabiru 3300, the  Lycoming O-320 or the  Lycoming IO-390. Specifications (Arion Lightning LS-1)

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Homebuilt aircraft
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Aircraft first flown in 2006