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
;Arion Lightning XS
;Arion Lightning LS-1

Specifications (Arion Lightning LS-1)