Piper J3C-65
N70659 is a Piper J3C-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. 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 restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial advertising; other, dated December 18, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J3C-65 · all J3C-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 17679
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A96E01 (octal 52267001)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 30, 2004
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Aerial advertising; Other · December 18, 1956
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00540827
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
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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 N70659, 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 December 18, 1956, 10 years after the 1946 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 17679 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N70659 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 N70659: Accident on September 1, 1990 at Opa-Locka, FL: minor 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 J3C-65 · operated under 091
ENGINE FAILURE DUE TO LACK OF OIL SUPPLY TO THE NUMBER 3 CYLINDER CONNECTING ROD FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS. THIS ALLOWED THE CONNECTING ROD END CAP TO SEPARATE THROUGH THE CASE RESULTING IN OIL EXHAUSTION.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA90LA181 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