Mercer Gerald G QUEST AIR VENTURE
N17FY is a Mercer Gerald G QUEST AIR VENTURE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Velocity Air LLC, an LLC in Allen, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 28, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 21, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mercer Gerald G
- Model
- QUEST AIR VENTURE
- Serial number
- 9
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550-G · 280 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2011
- Kit
- QUESTAIR SPIRIT
- Transponder code
- A11768 (octal 50213550)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 28, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 28, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 21, 2012
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01062837
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.
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The public federal record on N17FY, 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 August 28, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 21, 2012, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N17FY 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 N17FY. 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