Heldeberg Designs Llc MARATHON 2 PLACE
N55448 is a Heldeberg Designs Llc MARATHON 2 PLACE, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Earleville, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 7, 2007 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated December 18, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Heldeberg Designs Llc
- Model
- MARATHON 2 PLACE
- Serial number
- HD07153M
- Type
- Powered parachute
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582DCDI · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A7114C (octal 51610514)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 7, 2007
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · December 18, 2007
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00409239
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gardner Edmond J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 721 Knight Island Rd
Earleville, MD 21919-3212
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 4
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N55448, 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 Gardner Edmond J, an individual, certificate issued November 7, 2007, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated December 18, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial HD07153M for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N55448 was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Beech A36 (serial E-2548, cancelled July 19, 2005); Piper PA-28-140 (serial 287325404, cancelled August 6, 1974); Fairchild M-62A (serial T42-1735, cancelled December 1, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
2 NTSB records under N55448: Accident on October 30, 2004 at Downing, MO: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). Accident on April 21, 1985 at Boron, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech A36 · operated under 091
The pilot not maintaing airplane control during cruise flight. Factors present were night and thunderstorm conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI05FA020 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172P · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX85LA212 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data