Krause VP-1
N8580 is a Krause VP-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Airpower Museum INC, a corporation in Ottumwa, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 2, 2017 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 11, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Krause
- Model
- VP-1
- Serial number
- 1
- 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
- ABC768 (octal 52743550)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 2, 2017
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 11, 1977
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00382591
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Airpower Museum INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 22001 Bluegrass Rd
Ottumwa, IA 52501-8569
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
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The public federal record on N8580, 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 Airpower Museum INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 2, 2017, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 11, 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 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8580 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Waco GXE (serial 1931, cancelled August 15, 1939). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8580. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data