Woodruff Harold S LANCAIR IV
N81VP is a Woodruff Harold S LANCAIR IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rancho Cucamonga, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 9, 2022 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 13, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Woodruff Harold S
- Model
- LANCAIR IV
- Serial number
- LIV-450
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-550 SER · 280 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2003
- Kit
- LANCAIR INTL INC LANCAIR IV P
- Transponder code
- AB08EC (octal 52604354)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 9, 2022
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 13, 2003
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00433966
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Woodruff Harold S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8269 Calle Del Prado
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730-1018
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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
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The public federal record on N81VP, 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 Woodruff Harold S, an individual, certificate issued July 9, 2022, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 13, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial LIV-450 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N81VP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Schmahl Edward F VOLKSPLANE VP-1 (serial V2499, cancelled March 29, 1991). 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 N81VP: Accident on April 2, 1989 at Papillion, NE: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schmahl VOLKSPLANE VP-1 · operated under 091
THE PILOT FAILED TO MAINTAIN THE PROPER CLIMB RATE AND INADVERTENTLY STALLED THE AIRCRAFT WHICH ENTERED AN UNCONTROLLED DESCENT INTO AN OPEN FIELD.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC89DCJ02 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