Brantly B-2B
N888CF is a Brantly B-2B, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1965. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Jph Aviation LLC, an LLC in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 5, 2014 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 17, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Brantly
- Model
- B-2B · all B-2Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 457
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IVO-360-A1A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- AC3BC5 (octal 53035705)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 5, 2014
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 17, 1998
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00422012
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jph Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5535 Beacon St
Pittsburgh, PA 15217-1903
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 N888CF, 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 Jph Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 5, 2014, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 17, 1998, 33 years after the 1965 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 457 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N888CF 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 N888CF: Accident on September 29, 2006 at Carrizo Springs, 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-2B · operated under 091
The loss of engine power due to a malfunction of the electric fuel pump. A contributing factor was the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW06CA217 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