Smith-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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith-Shank
- Model
- VOLKSPLANE VP-1
- Serial number
- 1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Volkswagen CONVERSION · 36 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 85 mph
- Transponder code
- A1A6EE (octal 50323356)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 15, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 31, 1975
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00961082
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Loar Joshua D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1208 Somerset Ave
Windber, PA 15963-1635
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
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]
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.
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Clarks Pitt Special S1S · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW83LA444 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