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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.
Where is it now Last seen Friday at 5:10 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18A 150 · all PA-18A 150s 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
- 18-5497
- 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 · Lycoming O-360-C2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A94736 (octal 52243466)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 19, 2004
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Aerial advertisingFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 19, 2006
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00270457
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 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.
Connections how N6971D links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-18 Super Cub 3,620 registered
- Piper 44,848 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360-C2A 19 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Van Wagner Aerial Media LLC 36 aircraft in the fleet
- Hollywood, FL 119 aircraft registered in this town
- North Perry Airport · HWO
- Florida 21,712 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 Lycoming O-360-C2A 22 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-360-C2A 18 reports since 1995
- Where N6971D is now · Last seen Friday at 5:10 pm.
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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]
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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
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data