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.
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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
- 457
- 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 · Lycoming IVO-360-A1A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- AC3BC5 (octal 53035705)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 5, 2014
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 17, 1998
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00422012
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jph Aviation 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
- 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.
Connections how N888CF 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
- Lycoming IVO-360-A1A 2 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Type certificate 2H2 · held by Brantly International INC
- Jph Aviation LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Pittsburgh, PA 145 aircraft registered in this town
- Allegheny County · AGC
- Pittsburgh International · PIT
- Pennsylvania 6,188 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Brantly B-2 25 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Brantly B-2 5 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IVO-360-A1A 23 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N888CF.json.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data