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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Charles H Nickloy Iii VELOCITY XLRG-5
N427F is a Charles H Nickloy Iii VELOCITY XLRG-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Stingray Motors LLC, an LLC in Kansas City, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 4, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 27, 2016.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Charles H Nickloy Iii
- Model
- VELOCITY XLRG-5
- Serial number
- 3RX 157
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-550-E · 350 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- VELOCITY INC VELOCITY XLRG-5
- Transponder code
- A5161D (octal 51213035)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 4, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 14, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 27, 2016
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01214613
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stingray Motors LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1226 W 56Th St
Kansas City, MO 64113-1143
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N427F links to the rest of the register
- Charles H Nickloy Iii 1 aircraft on the register
- Continental TSIO-550-E 46 aircraft with this engine series · 350 hp
- Stingray Motors LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Kansas City, MO 230 aircraft registered in this town
- Kansas City Downtown/Wheeler Field · MKC
- Kansas City International · MCI
- Missouri 5,817 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental TSIO-550-E 17 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental TSIO-550-E 12 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N427F, 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 Stingray Motors LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 4, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3RX 157 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N427F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 427 (serial 56004, cancelled January 17, 2018). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N427F. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data