Piper PA-18A 150
N6971D is a Piper PA-18A 150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Van Wagner Aerial Media LLC, an LLC in Hollywood, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 19, 2004 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial advertising, dated July 19, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18A 150 · all PA-18A 150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-5497
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-C2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A94736 (octal 52243466)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 19, 2004
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Aerial advertising · July 19, 2006
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00270457
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Van Wagner Aerial Media LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1600 East 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.
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The public federal record on N6971D, 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 April 19, 2004, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for aerial advertising; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-5497 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6971D 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 N6971D: Accident on January 15, 2001 at Sun City, FL: 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-A-150 · operated under 091
THE LOSS OF ENGINE POWER FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS, A FACTOR WAS WEATHER CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR CARBURETOR ICING
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL01LA020 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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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