{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2014-03-14","city":"SHELBYVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"145","cruise_speed_mph":75,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2027-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Brantly","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BRANTLY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1440506","mode_s_code":"51063344","mode_s_hex":"A466E4","model":"B-2B","n_number":"N383ES","name":"DRAKE AIR LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Monrovia","damage":"DEST","date":"2020-07-24","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CEN20LA304","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s loss of control after takeoff for reasons that could not be determined based on the available information.","registration":"N383ES","state":"IN","summary":"Accident on July 24, 2020 at Monrovia, IN: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"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.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Drake Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 14, 2014, expires March 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 344 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N383ES according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N383ES: Accident on July 24, 2020 at Monrovia, IN: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":2,"serial_number":"344","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1231 HICKORY LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00201612","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N383ES","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"461763201"}