Piper PA-18
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.
Where is it now Last seen October 10 at 2:21 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18 · all PA-18s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe 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
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.
Connections how N5428H links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-18 Super Cub 3,620 registered
- Piper 44,847 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental C90 series 2,149 aircraft with this engine series · 95 hp
- Van Wagner Aerial Media LLC 36 aircraft in the fleet
- Hollywood, FL 119 aircraft registered in this town
- North Perry Airport · HWO
- Florida 21,706 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-18 Super Cub 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-18 Super Cub 136 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-18 Super Cub 482 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental C90 series 6 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental C90 series 18 reports since 1995
- Where N5428H is now · Last seen October 10 at 2:21 pm.
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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.
Valid registration to Van Wagner Aerial Media LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 30, 2004, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 22, 1963, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-19 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5428H 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]
1 NTSB record under N5428H: Accident on September 3, 2002 at Belmar, NJ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
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
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data
