Vandersteen Richard J VELOCITY XL-RG
N76VV is a Vandersteen Richard J VELOCITY XL-RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hanford, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 16, 2005 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 16, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vandersteen Richard J
- Model
- VELOCITY XL-RG
- Serial number
- 3RX118
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Kit
- VELOCITY INC VELOCITY 173 RG
- Transponder code
- AA411E (octal 52440436)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 16, 2005
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 16, 2005
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00164249
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vandersteen Richard J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2655 Sun Dr
Hanford, CA 93230-1331
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N76VV, 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 Vandersteen Richard J, an individual, certificate issued March 16, 2005, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 16, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3RX118 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N76VV 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N76VV. 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 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
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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data