Unander Gary D VELOCITY 173 RG
N278GJ is an Unander Gary D VELOCITY 173 RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Trussville, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 2013 and expires on July 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Unander Gary D
- Model
- VELOCITY 173 RG
- Serial number
- DMO 275
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A2C4D3 (octal 50542323)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 31, 2013
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00325671
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Unander Gary D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7642 Cottonridge Rd
Trussville, AL 35173-2607
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
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 N278GJ, 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 Unander Gary D, an individual, certificate issued July 31, 2013, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial DMO 275 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N278GJ 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 N278GJ: Accident on March 6, 2002 at West Jordan, UT: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Unander Velocity 173RG · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to ensure that the gear was extended prior to landing. Factors included a failure of a hydraulic down-pressure switch, and the pilot's attention diverted to another aircraft executing an opposite-direction traffic pattern.
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