Brantly B-2
N5996X is a Brantly B-2, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1961. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Georgetown, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 1, 2015 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 4, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Brantly
- Model
- B-2 · all B-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 141
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- A7C216 (octal 51741026)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 1, 2015
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 4, 1974
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00002085
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bowles Alan B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 501 Wilbur Wright Dr
Georgetown, TX 78626-2297
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.
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The public federal record on N5996X, 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 Bowles Alan B, an individual, certificate issued October 1, 2015, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 4, 1974, 13 years after the 1961 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 141 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5996X 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 N5996X: Accident on October 1, 1994 at Houston, TX: no 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: Brantly Helicopter B-2 · operated under 091
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- 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