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N17010, a Barber Christopher VELOCITY SE
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N17010

Barber Christopher VELOCITY SE

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTexas

N17010 is a Barber Christopher VELOCITY SE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2012. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 2006 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 24, 2012.

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Aircraft

Maker
Barber Christopher
Model
VELOCITY SE
Serial number
001
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Mazda 13B · 146 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2012
Kit
VELOCITY INC VELOCITY SUV FG
Transponder code
A11BC1 (octal 50215701)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
September 22, 2006
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
August 25, 2026
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 24, 2012
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00287319

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Barber Christopher
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
9310 Bassoon Dr
Houston, TX 77025-4003

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N17010 links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Mazda 13B 26 aircraft with this engine series · 146 hp
Place
Airworthiness

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The public federal record on N17010, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Barber Christopher, an individual, certificate issued September 22, 2006, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 24, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N17010 according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N17010. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

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CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data