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Velocity

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Kitbuilt composite light aircraft with single piston pusher, canards and rear mounted wings with fin and rudder on the end of each. Includes the variants Velocity V-Twin, Velocity XL and Velocity SE; with six-seater V-Twin and turbine-powered V-Twin variants in development.

Lift type

Fixed wing

Assembly

Kit-built

Control

Piloted

Engine type

Piston, Diesel

Application

Sport

Design & construction

The aircraft as engineered: what it is built from, the systems it flies with, and its configuration — each box a theme.

Airframe & structure

Primary structure

Composite

Wing

Composite

Landing gear

Retractable tricycle

Ice protection

None

Pressurisation

Unpressurised

Systems & avionics

Flight controls

Mechanical

Avionics architecture

Standalone glass

Configuration & certification

Tail

Canard

Certification

Experimental-LSA

Minimum crew

Notable technologies — each tag names a technology on our research record for this aircraft, with its fitting status: Primary, Standard, Option or Planned.

Composite wing (primary structure) Primary Composite fuselage (primary structure) Primary

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Type variants

Variant	Launch / first flight	Notes
Velocity SE	1985 / 1985	Standard four-seater variant, comes in fixed-gear or retractable-gear configurations.
Velocity XL	1997 / 1997	Large cabin, luxury variant, seats up to five.
Velocity V-Twin	2012 / 2012	Twin-engined variant, derived from Velocity XL-RG.

Airframer

Velocity Inc.

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