William H Barker VELOCITY XL/RG
N8870L is a William H Barker VELOCITY XL/RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2013. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Gulf Breeze, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 8, 2013 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 10, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- William H Barker
- Model
- VELOCITY XL/RG
- Serial number
- 3RX 101
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550-N · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2013
- Kit
- VELOCITY INC VELOCITY XL RG
- Transponder code
- AC3A39 (octal 53035071)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 8, 2013
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 10, 2013
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00003917
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Barker William H
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2016 Reservation Rd
Gulf Breeze, FL 32563-5512
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8870L, 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 Barker William H, an individual, certificate issued May 8, 2013, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 10, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3RX 101 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8870L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-1B (serial AA1B0370, cancelled date not given). 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 N8870L: Accident on July 18, 1982 at Gatesville, NC: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman AMERICAN AA-1B · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL82FLJ07 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