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N2050

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

—Nieuport 23 · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data