Blackburn Keith BLUE HERON MARATHON
N31042 is a Blackburn Keith BLUE HERON MARATHON, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Friona, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 12, 2006 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated November 11, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Blackburn Keith
- Model
- BLUE HERON MARATHON
- Serial number
- HD05143M
- Type
- Powered parachute
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A349D0 (octal 50644720)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 12, 2006
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- November 5, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · November 11, 2009
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00238359
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Blackburn Keith
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 311 W 15Th
Friona, TX 79035-1113
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.
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The public federal record on N31042, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Blackburn Keith, an individual, certificate issued June 12, 2006, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 11, 2009, 4 years after the 2005 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial HD05143M for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N31042 according to the deregistered file. [2]
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. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N31042. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data