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N2257U

Brantly B-2B

Valid Ohio

N2257U is a Brantly B-2B, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Celina, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 16, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 20, 1969.

Aircraft

Maker
Brantly
Model
B-2B · all B-2Bs and related versions
Serial number
418
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
75 mph
Transponder code
A1F6F4 (octal 50373364)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 16, 2024
Expires
December 31, 2031
Last FAA action
December 16, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · May 20, 1969
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00061922

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Murray Richard A
Type
Individual
Address
5345 Lake Dr
Celina, OH 45822-8133

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N2257U, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Murray Richard A, an individual, certificate issued December 16, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 418 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N2257U according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N2257U: Accident on May 1, 1993 at Greencastle, IN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

CHI93LA156Accident on May 1, 1993 at Greencastle, IN: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Brantly-Hynes B2B · operated under 091

CONTAMINATION OF THE FUEL SYSTEM BY PARTICULATE MATTER OF AN UNKNOWN ORIGIN.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI93LA156 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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