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) See also References External links Homebuilt aircraft Low-wing aircraft Single-engined tractor aircraft Aircraft first flown in 2006