Brantly International

Brantly International Inc. is an American helicopter company with its engineering and administrative offices based Coppell, Texas, United States.

Lear Jet acquired the Brantly Helicopter Corporation in 1966; at this time the 180,000 sq ft (17,000 m2) factory in Frederick, Oklahoma had 100 employees.

Aeronautical Research & Development Corporation (ARDC) bought all the rights to Brantly helicopters from Lear Jet in 1969, but they ended operations in early 1970.

[5] The new factory in Vernon was built 1989 by Japanese-American businessman James T. Kimura, who renamed the company as Brantly International.

[6][7] The factory at the Wilbarger County Airport closed at the end of 2010, and engineering and administrative offices of Brantly moved to Coppell, Texas.

A Brantly B.2 on display at the Flugausstellung Hermeskeil
A Brantly 305 at Kidlington Airport