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what is it?
The Brantly B-2 is an American two-seat light helicopter produced by the Brantly Helicopter Corporation.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine · 7.2 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 73 years ago, in 1953.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1953-02-21
- introduced
- 1958
- status
- in production
- number built
- 334
- role
- light helicopter
- makers
- Brantly International
- engines
- 1× Avco Lycoming IVO-360-A1A
- crew
- 2
- length
- 6.6 m
- rotor diameter
- 7.2 m
- height
- 2.1 m
- max take-off weight
- 758 kg
- top speed
- 161 km/h
- cruise speed
- 145 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 3,292 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q600100, Wikipedia: Brantly B-2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.