Brantly B-2B
N383ES is a Brantly B-2B, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 2 seats. It is registered to Drake Air LLC, an LLC in Shelbyville, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2014 and expires on March 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Brantly
- Model
- B-2B · all B-2Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 344
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- A466E4 (octal 51063344)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 14, 2014
- Expires
- March 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00201612
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Drake Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1231 Hickory Ln
Shelbyville, IN 46176-3201
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N383ES, 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 Drake Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 14, 2014, expires March 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 344 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N383ES 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 N383ES: Accident on July 24, 2020 at Monrovia, IN: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Brantly B2B · operated under 091
The pilot’s loss of control after takeoff for reasons that could not be determined based on the available information.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN20LA304 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
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