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N5428H

Piper PA-18

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesFlorida

N5428H is a Piper PA-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1963. 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 30, 2004 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 22, 1963.

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Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-18 · all PA-18s 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 PA-18 Super Cub 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
18-19
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 · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1963
Cruising speed
97 mph
Transponder code
A6E2D2 (octal 51561322)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
August 30, 2004
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 22, 1963
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00663901

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
Attn: Paul Whitby
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 N5428H links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
Live

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The public federal record on N5428H, 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 30, 2004, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 22, 1963, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-19 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5428H 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 N5428H: Accident on September 3, 2002 at Belmar, NJ: 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

NYC02LA181Accident on September 3, 2002 at Belmar, NJ: no injuries, substantial damage.

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

The improper use of an fuel additive which resulted in a power loss. A factor was the lack of suitable terrain.

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 October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data