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N5985X

Brantly B-2

N5985X 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 Western North Carolina Air Museum, a corporation in Hendersonville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 24, 1961.

Aircraft

Maker
Brantly
Model
B-2
Serial number
129
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
A7BE3C (octal 51737074)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 15, 2025
Expires
September 30, 2032
Last FAA action
September 15, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · August 24, 1961
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00122065

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Western North Carolina Air Museum
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 2343
Hendersonville, NC 28793-2343

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.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data