Donald E Johnston VELOCITY XL-RG
N621CM is a Donald E Johnston VELOCITY XL-RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2015. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Niceville, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 15, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 12, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Donald E Johnston
- Model
- VELOCITY XL-RG
- Serial number
- 3RX166
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550-N · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2015
- Kit
- VELOCITY INC VELOCITY XL RG
- Transponder code
- A81A32 (octal 52015062)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 15, 2021
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 12, 2016
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01168196
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rhude Steven A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 106 Ramonde Ct
Niceville, FL 32578-2320
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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 N621CM, 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 Rhude Steven A, an individual, certificate issued March 15, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 12, 2016, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3RX166 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N621CM 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 N621CM: Accident on April 17, 2026 at Crestview, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Donald E Johnston VELOCITY XL-RG · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to extend the landing gear before landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA26LA182 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