Lambert EVANS VP-1
N73VP is a Lambert EVANS VP-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Royse City, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 23, 1990 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 16, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lambert
- Model
- EVANS VP-1
- Serial number
- JL002
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Volkswagen CONVERSION · 36 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 85 mph
- Transponder code
- A9CA9B (octal 52345233)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 23, 1990
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 16, 1977
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00771667
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Husband Bruce C JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 286 County Rd #911
Royse City, TX 75189
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 N73VP, 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 Husband Bruce C JR, an individual, certificate issued February 23, 1990, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 16, 1977, 4 years after the 1973 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial JL002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N73VP 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 N73VP: Accident on August 8, 1992 at Friendswood, TX: serious 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: Evans Aircraft VP-1 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN A PROPER DESCENT RATE DURING THE FORCED LANDING. A FACTOR WAS THE ENGINE POWER LOSS FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW92DRA04 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