Velocity SE / 173 / Standard (RG and FG)
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The Velocity is Danny Maher's 1985 four-seat canard pusher, a composite aeroplane with a 29 ft 4 in main wing, a 164-inch canard and gull-wing doors, offered with fixed or retractable gear and 160-215 hp Lycomings; the factory quotes 187 knots at 200 hp, 1,200 fpm, a 60 knot stall and 60 gallons (the maker publishes no 75 %-power range figure with a 30-minute reserve), with 1,000 lb useful on 2,300 lb.
A canard flies differently and lands differently - no stall in the conventional sense, a nose-high flat approach at 70 knots or more, long runways by light-aircraft standards and a pusher propeller that eats whatever the nosewheel throws at it - and the factory does its transition training in this model for a reason. Each example is a builder's: the gear, engine, propeller and the quality of the layup are the owner's, the fixed-gear version gives up 5-7 knots, and the aircraft's own weight-and-balance governs a design whose centre-of-gravity range is narrow. Velocity remains in business with service and training. No current asking prices were found in the marketplaces read, so the price cells are blank.
Variants of the Velocity (Standard / 173 / SE)
- Velocity SE / 173 / Standard (RG and FG) · 1985 · 132 active · this page
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What it is
| Seats | 4 |
|---|---|
| Landing gear | tricycle |
| Engines | — |
| Engine | Lycoming IO-360 (160-215 hp) |
| Horsepower | 200 hp |
| Fuel | — |
| Certification basis | amateur-built |
| Production start | 1985 |
| Production end | — |
| Endorsements required | — |
Performance
| Cruise (75 % power) | 187 KTAS |
|---|---|
| Range (75 %, standard fuel, 30-min reserve) | — |
| Service ceiling | 20,000 ft |
| Climb rate | 1,200 ft/min |
| Stall speed (Vso) | 60 KCAS |
| Takeoff over 50 ft | — |
| Landing over 50 ft | — |
Load and fuel
| Seats | 4 |
|---|---|
| Useful load | 1,000 lb |
| Full-fuel payload | — |
| Max takeoff weight | 2,300 lb |
| Empty weight | 1,300 lb |
| Usable fuel | 60 gal |
| Fuel burn at cruise | — |
Cost of ownership
| Price, low | — |
|---|---|
| Price, high | — |
| Prices as of | — |
| Engine TBO | — |
| Overhaul cost, low | — |
| Overhaul cost, high | — |
The fleet and its record
| Registered, all time | 220 |
|---|---|
| Active fleet | 132 |
| Median year built | 2002 |
| NTSB events, last 10 years | 12 |
| Fatal events, last 10 years | 2 |
| Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years | 90.911 |
| Personal-flying events per 1,000 active | 75.762 |
| Ownership transfers, last 24 months | 20 |
| Transfers per 100 active | 15.153 |
| Airworthiness directives | 6 |
| Directives, last 5 years | 0 |
| Rate confidence | ok |
- Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 132 active.
- Personal-flying events per 1,000 active: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 132 active.
- Transfers per 100 active: per 100 active aircraft · base 132 active.
Peer scores6
| Peer class | Fixed wing single-engine, piston, 1 engine, 3-4 seats |
|---|---|
| Accident record | 0.7 of 101 |
| Severity | 3.8 of 102 |
| Access | 0.5 of 103 |
| Support | 5 of 104 |
| Liquidity | 1.8 of 105 |
| Overall (sum of the categories shown) | 11.8 out of 506 |
- Accident record: class median 33.21 · 223 models in class.
- Severity: class median 12.5.
- Access: class median 796.
- Support: class median 131.
- Liquidity: class median 19.89.
- Each of the five categories places the model within its peer class, from 0 (the worst of the class) to 10 (the best): a position among comparable models, not a grade. The overall score is the sum of the categories shown that are scored, out of 10 for each (50 when all five are); it is given only when at least 4 of the five are scored, and it can be set against another model's only when both are in the same peer class and scored on the same categories. When accident record and severity cannot be scored because the model has too few records, the other three give a partial score out of 30, labelled as such; it is never set against a full score.
Data as of: FAA registry Sep 28 · NTSB Oct 2 · ADs Oct 8 · scores Sep 30