Trent Robert D VELOCITY 173 FGELITE
N173RT is a Trent Robert D VELOCITY 173 FGELITE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Tanis Research And Design Aviation L3C, an LLC in Tickfaw, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 11, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 5, 2007. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Trent Robert D
- Model
- VELOCITY 173 FGELITE
- Serial number
- DMO 270
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-C1E6 · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2007
- Kit
- VELOCITY INC 173 ELITE FG
- Transponder code
- A125DB (octal 50222733)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 11, 2021
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 5, 2007
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00280699
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tanis Research And Design Aviation L3C
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 14087 Manina Ln
Tickfaw, LA 70466-4907
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Documents on file 1
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The public federal record on N173RT, 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 Tanis Research And Design Aviation L3C, an LLC, certificate issued May 11, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 5, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial DMO 270 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N173RT according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 2, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N173RT. 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 September 30, 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