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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Smith-Shank VOLKSPLANE VP-1
N2050 is a Smith-Shank VOLKSPLANE VP-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Windber, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 15, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 31, 1975.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith-Shank
- Model
- VOLKSPLANE VP-1
- Serial number
- 1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Volkswagen CONVERSION · 36 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 85 mph
- Transponder code
- A1A6EE (octal 50323356)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 15, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 31, 1975
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00961082
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Loar Joshua D
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1208 Somerset Ave
Windber, PA 15963-1635
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N2050 links to the rest of the register
- Smith-Shank 1 aircraft on the register
- Volkswagen (converted) CONVERSION 374 aircraft with this engine series · 36 hp
- Windber, PA 6 aircraft registered in this town
- Pennsylvania 6,194 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N2050.json.
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The public federal record on N2050, 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 Loar Joshua D, an individual, certificate issued August 15, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. 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]
N2050 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Nieuport 23 (serial A-240, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N2050: Accident on September 10, 1983 at Manvel, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Clarks Pitt Special S1S · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data