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N294T

Piper PA-18 105

Valid Florida

N294T is a Piper PA-18 105, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. 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. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-18 105 · all PA-18 105s and related versions
Serial number
182408
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
97 mph
Transponder code
A305FF (octal 50602777)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 31, 2004
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00246111

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Van Wagner Aerial Media LLC
Type
LLC
Address
Attn Paul Whitby
1600 E Airport Rd
Hollywood, FL 33023-2500

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.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N294T, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Van Wagner Aerial Media LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 31, 2004, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 182408 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N294T according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

2 NTSB records under N294T: Accident on August 20, 2005 at Palos Verdes, CA: no injuries, destroyed. Accident on April 3, 1982 at Hollywood, FL: no injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 2

LAX05LA273Accident on August 20, 2005 at Palos Verdes, CA: no injuries, destroyed.serial on NTSB record: 182468

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-105 · operated under 091

a loss of engine power due to the cyclic fatigue failure and separation of the number 4 piston.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX05LA273 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

MIA82DA127Accident on April 3, 1982 at Hollywood, FL: no injuries, destroyed.serial on NTSB record: 18-2408

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA82DA127 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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