Geoff Gerhardt VELOCITY 173RG
N173VS is a Geoff Gerhardt VELOCITY 173RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2012. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Velocity Air LLC, an LLC in Allen, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 6, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 8, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Geoff Gerhardt
- Model
- VELOCITY 173RG
- Serial number
- DMO-323
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming LIO-360-C1E6 · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2012
- Kit
- VELOCITY INC VELOCITY 173 RG
- Transponder code
- A1263E (octal 50223076)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 6, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 6, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 8, 2012
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01070899
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Velocity Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1400 Andrews Pkwy Apt 3014
Allen, TX 75002-2964
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N173VS, 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 Velocity Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 6, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 8, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial DMO-323 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N173VS according to the deregistered file. [2]
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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N173VS. 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