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N33180

Piper J5A

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesFlorida

N33180 is a Piper J5A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Van Wagner Aerial Media LLC, an LLC in Hollywood, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 20, 2017 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial advertising, dated May 24, 1976.

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Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
J5A · all J5As and related versions
Built of
steel tube and fabric
The fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Piper J5 Cub Cruiser family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
5-456
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
3
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
77 mph
Transponder code
A39D0F (octal 50716417)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
January 20, 2017
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Aerial advertisingFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 24, 1976
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00102143

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Van Wagner Aerial Media LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
1600 e Airport Rd
Hollywood, FL 33023

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N33180 links to the rest of the register

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The public federal record on N33180, 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 January 20, 2017, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Restricted certificate for aerial advertising; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5-456 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N33180 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

1 NTSB record under N33180: Accident on May 6, 2007 at Richmond, VA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 1

MIA07CA093Accident on May 6, 2007 at Richmond, VA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper J5A · operated under 091

The improper positioning of the elevator flight control surface by the pilot-in-command while taxiing with a tailwind, resulting in the airplane nosing over.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data