Leder John A LEDER VELOCITY XL RG
N224SM is a Leder John A LEDER VELOCITY XL RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Thomson, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 21, 2017 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 26, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Leder John A
- Model
- LEDER VELOCITY XL RG
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2000
- Kit
- VELOCITY INC VELOCITY XL RG
- Transponder code
- A1F179 (octal 50370571)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 21, 2017
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 26, 2000
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00245850
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mueller Terry L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2850 Washington Rd
Thomson, GA 30824-6601
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N224SM, 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 Mueller Terry L, an individual, certificate issued July 21, 2017, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 26, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N224SM 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]
1 NTSB record under N224SM: Accident on July 2, 2012 at Thomson, GA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Leder John A LEDER VELOCITY XL RG · operated under 091
Separation of the nose landing gear due to a preexisting fatigue crack caused by an earlier shimmy event and the subsequent incorrect installation of the shimmy dampener.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data