Piper PA-18-150
N55871 is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. 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 May 6, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-6409
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A7208A (octal 51620212)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 30, 2004
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 6, 1980
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00000156
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Van Wagner Aerial Media LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1600 E Airport Road
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N55871, 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]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 6, 1980, 21 years after the 1959 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-6409 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N55871 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-34-200 (serial 34-7350253, cancelled August 9, 1973); Consolidated Vultee BT-13A (serial 3112, cancelled January 26, 1954). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N55871. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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 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