Piper J3C-65
N2143M is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Van Wagner Aerial Media LLC, an LLC in Hollywood, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 2004 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial surveying, dated December 17, 1963.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 20928
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A1CB2B (octal 50345453)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 31, 2004
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Aerial surveying · December 17, 1963
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00301492
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Van Wagner Aerial Media LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- Attn Paul Whitby
1600 E Airport Rd
Hollywood, FL 33023
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 N2143M, 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 Van Wagner Aerial Media LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 31, 2004, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 17, 1963, 17 years after the 1946 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 20928 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2143M 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]
2 NTSB records under N2143M: Accident on January 29, 2008 at Hollywood, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 3, 2000 at New Smyrna Bch., FL: 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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper J3-C65 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control while landing. Contributing was the gusty crosswind condition.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC08CA094 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper J3C-65 · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane during the landing roll. Factors in this accident were; a crosswind, and the pilot lack of experience in this kind of aircraft.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA00LA230 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