{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2014-01-16","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-09-14","city":"NORTH MIAMI BEACH","country_code":"US","county_code":"025","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41585","engine_horsepower":260,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO 540 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"VELOCITY INC","kit_model":"VELOCITY XL RG","last_action_date":"2023-09-02","maker":"Paschal Jr Roy E","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PASCHAL JR ROY E","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05630QB","mode_s_code":"52503204","mode_s_hex":"AA8684","model":"VELOCITY XL RG","n_number":"N7778M","name":"FLORIDA BEST AIRLINES LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Columbia","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-08-12","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA25LA298","probable_cause":"A landing gear collapse during landing.","registration":"N7778M","state":"SC","summary":"Accident on August 12, 2025 at Columbia, SC: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"CUSHING","damage":"DEST","date":"1983-01-09","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"FTW83FA079","probable_cause":"","registration":"N7778M","state":"OK","summary":"Accident on January 9, 1983 at Cushing, OK: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N7778M is a Paschal Jr Roy E VELOCITY XL RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Florida Best Airlines LLC, an LLC in North Miami Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 16, 2014.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Florida Best Airlines LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 14, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 16, 2014, 3 years after the 2011 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3RX095 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N7778M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney M20E (serial 21-0033, cancelled November 19, 2014). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"2 NTSB records under N7778M: Accident on August 12, 2025 at Columbia, SC: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on January 9, 1983 at Cushing, OK: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"3RX095","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"15807 BISCAYNE BLVD UNIT 213","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01065634","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N7778M","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2011,"zip":"33160"}