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.
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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
- 344
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- A466E4 (octal 51063344)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 14, 2014
- Expires
- March 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00201612
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Drake Air 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
- 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.
Connections how N383ES 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
- Type certificate 2H2 · held by Brantly International INC
- Drake Air LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Shelbyville, IN 30 aircraft registered in this town
- Shelbyville Municipal · GEZ
- Indiana 5,697 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Brantly B-2 25 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Brantly B-2 5 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Pump, leaking · 1999-08-25
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N383ES.json.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data