Smith Miniplane DSA-1
N179VP is a Smith Miniplane DSA-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Bas Part Sales LLC, an LLC in Greeley, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 9, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith Miniplane
- Model
- DSA-1 · all DSA-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A13C85 (octal 50236205)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2022
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 9, 2008
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00622490
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bas Part Sales LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 575 Ed Beegles Ln
Greeley, CO 80631
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N179VP, 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 Bas Part Sales LLC, an LLC, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N179VP according to the deregistered file. [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 N179VP: Accident on May 12, 2021 at Fulton, MO: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Smith Miniplane DSA-1 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain control of the airplane during landing in gusty crosswinds.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN21LA217 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