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what is it?
The Brantly 305 is an American five-seat light helicopter of the 1960s. It is an enlarged version of the Brantly B-2 which was produced by the Brantly Helicopter Corporation.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine · 8.7 m main rotor
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 62 years ago, in 1964.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1964-01
- number built
- —
- role
- light helicopter
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States of America
- makers
- Brantly International
- engines
- 1× Lycoming IVO-540-A1A
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 4
- length
- 10 m
- rotor diameter
- 8.7 m
- height
- 2.4 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,315 kg
- top speed
- 193 km/h
- cruise speed
- 177 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 3,658 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q898903, Wikipedia: Brantly 305 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.