2014 – N585V – Dick Harpster – Velocity XL/FG – Carthage, NC – 0

Apparently another main gear failure in an XL/FG. It seems the C reinforcements are not adequate, and the ‘sock’ type are required. A local pilot escaped injury early Saturday when his Velocity XLFG, a kit-built fixed wing single engine aircraft, crash landed at Gilliam-McConnell Air Field in Carthage. The plane’s owner and pilot Richard Harpster […]

2014 – N114MV- Andy Millin – Velocity XL/FG – Allegan, MI – 0

A very minor incident in the scheme of things, but worth tracking now that there has been another main gear failure in a XL/FG. On landing Andy got a bad vibration that he thought was a nose wheel shimmy, so he applied very hard braking. As it turns out, the torsional wrap on the main […]

2011 – N360TV – Kirk Aragon – Velocity SE/FG – Sanford, NC – 1

UPDATE: The NTSB initial report and probable causes are out, the Fayetteville Observer is reporting, and the NTSB is saying that the airplane only had 143 total hours since 1996, that the airplane was out of annual, Kirk’s total flight time was 375 hours, that he was not current, and that the turbo wastegate may […]

2009 – N92VA – Gunnoe – Velocity SE/FG – Livermore, CA – 0

Right brake overheated and failed on take-off, catching fire in the grass and destroying the airplane. I believe that Dave Dent may have been the test pilot, I think I saw something on this on the Reflector but I can’t find it now. This airplane was in an earlier accident in 2004 (NTSB). The mechanic/pilot […]

2009 – N45YV – Olef Simonsen – Velocity SE/FG – Katy, TX – 1

Crashed shortly after installing a new prop. This accident is a little troubling to me, because the available pictures look like it came straight down on it’s roof, which is really odd for a Velocity. Maybe there’s something that the pictures don’t show, but it doesn’t seem to have skidded or tumbled. UPDATE: After reading […]

2008 – N44VF – Brett Ferrell – Velocity XL/FG – Otisco, IN – 0

My own little bit of infamy… In flight from Cincinnati (I68 to the CSA Canard Flyin at Rough River (2I3), N44VF experienced a catastrophic oil line failure necessitating a forced landing on Highway 3 in Otisco, Indiana. The landing was uneventful aside from a wing strike from a reflector post on the copilot wing moving […]