Blue Heron MARATHON
N6166Y is a Blue Heron MARATHON, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 2001. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cedar Lake, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 1, 2007 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 16, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Blue Heron
- Model
- MARATHON · all MARATHONs and related versions
- Serial number
- BH18016
- Type
- Powered parachute
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582DCDI · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A80849 (octal 52004111)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 1, 2007
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · January 16, 2008
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00392299
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Witt Frank L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 14005 W 132Nd Pl
Cedar Lake, IN 46303-9746
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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 3
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N6166Y, 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 Witt Frank L, an individual, certificate issued November 1, 2007, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 16, 2008, 7 years after the 2001 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 BH18016 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6166Y was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Beech 65-B80 (serial LD-388, cancelled November 15, 2002); Piper PA-24-250 (serial 24-375, cancelled July 21, 1983); Piper PA-23-250 (6PCLM) (serial 27-3385, cancelled March 5, 1981). 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]
1 NTSB record under N6166Y: Accident on May 23, 1994 at Pensacola, FL: serious injuries, minor damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 65 · operated under 091
IMPROPER INSTALLATION OF NUTS ON THE NOSEWHEEL (SPLIT RIM) THROUGH-BOLTS BY UNKNOWN PERSONNEL, WHICH RESULTED IN A SUBSEQUENT FAILURE (SEPARATION OF THE WHEEL HALVES).
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA94LA149 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