Tappen Chris VELOCITY SUV
N399DG is a Tappen Chris VELOCITY SUV, a glider with a piston engine, built in 2012. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Anderson Aviation LLC, an LLC in Eatonville, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 2017 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 13, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Tappen Chris
- Model
- VELOCITY SUV
- Serial number
- 115
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-C1E6 · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2012
- Kit
- VELOCITY INC SUVLW
- Transponder code
- A4A48A (octal 51122212)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 20, 2017
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 13, 2012
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01061631
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Anderson Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 40619 67Th Avenue Ct E
Eatonville, WA 98328-9321
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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 N399DG, 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 Anderson Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 20, 2017, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 13, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 115 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N399DG 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 N399DG: Accident on May 30, 2017 at Puyallup, WA: 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: Tappen Chris VELOCITY SUV · operated under 091
The airplane builder's failure to install safety wires on the brake disc attachment bolts, and the mechanic’s failure to identify the omission during the condition inspection. The subsequent brake disc separation resulted in a loss of directional control during the landing roll.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR17LA114 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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