Rodriguez Carlos ELITE 173
N6954K is a Rodriguez Carlos ELITE 173, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Morrison, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 17, 2008 and expires on April 30, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rodriguez Carlos
- Model
- ELITE 173
- Serial number
- DM0256
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A94037 (octal 52240067)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 17, 2008
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00596631
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vander Bleek Luke
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 504 Portland Ave
Morrison, IL 61270-2942 - Co-owners
- Vander Bleek Joan
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N6954K, 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 Vander Bleek Luke, a co-owned, certificate issued September 17, 2008, expires April 30, 2028. 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 DM0256 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6954K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-20 (serial 20-58, cancelled August 31, 1970). 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]
1 NTSB record under N6954K: Accident on August 10, 2026 at Palmyra, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Velocity Aircraft Velocity · operated under 091
On August 10, 2026, about 1248 central daylight time, an experimental Velocity 173 FG Elite II airplane, N6954K, sustained substantial damage when it was involved in an accident near Palmyra, Illinois. The pilot and two passengers sustained no injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal cross-country flight. According to the pilot, 14 gallons of 100 low lead fuel was purchased prior to the flight at the St. Louis Regional Airport (ALN), East Alton, Illinois. The airplane departed from ALN about 1210, and the destination was the Whiteside Count…
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN26LA283 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