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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18 · all PA-18s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-19
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 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 registration
- Certificate issued
- August 30, 2004
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 22, 1963
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00663901
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Van Wagner Aerial Media LLC
- Type
- LLC
- 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.
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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]
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 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 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 September 30, 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