Brantly B-2B
N2175U is a Brantly B-2B, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1963. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Optimus Aircraft Service INC, a corporation in Middletown, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 11, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 30, 1965.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Brantly
- Model
- B-2B · all B-2Bs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. This is how the Brantly B-2 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
- 337
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (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&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1963
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- A1D69D (octal 50353235)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 11, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 11, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 30, 1965
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00561592
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Optimus Aircraft Service INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1232 Choptank Rd
Middletown, DE 19709-9038
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N2175U links to the rest of the register
- Brantly B-2 53 registered
- Brantly 55 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360 / VO-360 series 11,930 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Type certificate 2H2 · held by Brantly International INC
- Optimus Aircraft Service INC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Middletown, DE 347 aircraft registered in this town
- Summit Airport · EVY
- Delaware 10,964 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Brantly B-2 25 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Brantly B-2 5 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N2175U, 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 Optimus Aircraft Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 11, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 30, 1965, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 337 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2175U 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2175U. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data