Brantly B-2B
N9023M is a Brantly B-2B, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Taylorville, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 6, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 19, 2001.
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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
- 2020
- 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 O-360-A1A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- AC7967 (octal 53074547)
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 6, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 6, 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 · November 19, 2001
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00614034
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Brandis Robert J
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2301 S Spresser St Ste 2
Taylorville, IL 62568-9291 - Co-owners
- Aerial AG Services LTD
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N9023M 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 O-360-A1A 601 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Type certificate 2H2 · held by Brantly International INC
- Taylorville, IL 15 aircraft registered in this town
- Taylorville Municipal · TAZ
- Illinois 8,055 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 O-360-A1A 26 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-360-A1A 103 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N9023M, 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 Brandis Robert J, an individual, certificate issued March 6, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2020 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9023M 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 N9023M: Accident on July 24, 2005 at Ft. Pierce, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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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 B2B · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate preflight planning/preparation, and failure to refuel the helicopter prior to takeoff which resulted in fuel exhaustion and a loss of engine power during the landing.
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
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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data