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KC Heidler

Second in Pro-Am Runabout Modified at the 2004 World Finals, second in his Pro/am class at the 2006 Long Beach to Catalina race, and a finisher there and in a team endurance race in 2009.

At a glance

Role
Racer
On the record
3 years, from 2004 to 2009
Disciplines
Closed course, Offshore, Endurance
Titles on the record
none read off a held results document yet
In the archive
2 history chapters and 3 events
  1. The early years, in print, 1981 to 1993
  2. The makers and their machines, 1985 to 2005 (this page's records)
  3. Noise, safety and federal rules, 1996 to 2002
  4. The rule book years, 2002 to 2018 (this page's records)
  5. Three rule books, 2021 to 2026

The eras this page's records fall in are drawn solid; the others are hollow.

How we know: Each bar runs the years printed on that era's panel, and which eras a page falls in is the archive's grouping of its records, not the length of anyone's career.

Years 2004 to 2009, one box each A single row of boxes, solid for a year printed above a fact and hollow for a year printed above none. 2004 2009
  • a year printed above a fact on this page
  • a year printed above no fact

Printed above the facts, 2004, 2006 and 2009. Printed above none, 2005, 2007 and 2008. 1 fact has no year printed above it and marks no box.

Every year from the first to the last year printed above a fact on this page, one box a year.

How we know: the year printed above each fact below; an honour carries no activity year, so it marks no box.

  • Confirmed 2

  • Likely 3

  • Contested 0

The grade word on each fact on this page, counted. It grades how firmly the documents tie each fact to this person, not the person.

How we know: the word printed above each fact below, counted on this page only.

Results

2004 · Confirmed

The International Jet Sports Boating Association's 2004 World Finals closed course sheet lists HEIDLER, K C fourth in the first moto and second in the second moto of Pro-Am Runabout Modified, and second in its final. The same sheet has him fifth in the second heat of Expert Runabout 1200 Superstock.

Sources: 2004 World Finals Expert closed course

2006 · Likely

PWCOFFSHORE's results page, captured in January 2008, prints the official results of the 2006 APBA offshore national championship, Long Beach to Catalina and back, on 9 July 2006, with K.C. Heidler second in Pro/am Open Class 2. Reading him as the 2004 racer rests on the initials and the family name, an inference.

Sources: Offshore results page 2008

2009 · Likely

A team endurance sheet on the same site, made in March 2009 and read as the Mark Hahn Memorial 300 of that year, lists BERNARD BOEHME/K.C. HEIDLER tenth in 4 Stroke Stock on a Sea-Doo with 12 laps. The event is the archive's reading of the file's date, its laps and its class winners, and the tie to the 2004 racer is the name, both inferences.

Sources: 2009 endurance sheet (event unnamed)

2009 · Likely

The site's Long Beach to Catalina race page, captured in June 2010, prints the 2009 race as a table without positions, in which KC Heidler, number 44, finishes in Pro Am Open in 90m 12s. The archive takes him for the 2004 racer on the name, an inference.

Sources: LB2CAT race page 2010

Recognition

Confirmed

The PWCOFFSHORE Endurance and Offshore Racing Hall of Fame lists KC Heidler as inducted on 23 November 2019, with a citation, in the hall's own words, on his offshore, endurance and closed course racing.

Sources: Offshore hall of fame 2026

Names as printed

HEIDLER, K C (2004 World Finals Expert closed course)

Elsewhere in the archive

What the archive has not read (1)

  • The PWCOFFSHORE hall's citation credits him with IJSBA Vet-Master world titles for 2002, 2003 and 2005, won on a Yamaha GP 1200R, and with a podium at the 2012 Mark Hahn 300. No held result sheet carries the titles or that podium, and the association's champions page prints no veterans or masters table (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-19), so none is a title or a result here.

Documents cited on this page

  • 2004 World Finals Expert closed course (web.archive.org): 2004 World Finals, Expert closed course results (PDF, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2004; sanctioning body, high. Closed course results for the Expert classes, as extracted text. Event and year come from the file's address.
  • Offshore results page 2008 (web.archive.org): Race results page on pwcoffshore.com, captured January 2008, pwcoffshore.com; editorial, medium. Winners lists for the Long Beach to Catalina and Mark Hahn races, the 2007 and 2006 Long Beach to Catalina results and the 2007 Sprint Nationals at Long Beach. Medium as a page restating results; a winners list on it is not a result sheet.
  • 2009 endurance sheet (event unnamed) (web.archive.org): Team endurance results, 2009 (PDF on pwcoffshore.com; the sheet names no event), pwcoffshore.com, 2009-03-02; editorial, medium. A team endurance result sheet by class, laps, boat, riders and make, PDF made 2 March 2009. It never names its event; the dates, lap count and class winners point to the Mark Hahn Memorial 300 of 28 February 2009, which is an inference, so a page using it says so.
  • LB2CAT race page 2010 (web.archive.org): LB2CAT race page on pwcoffshore.com, captured June 2010, pwcoffshore.com; editorial, medium. A winners list, the 2009 results as a table with no position numbers, and a report of the 2009 race calling it an APBA offshore national championship run by RPM Racing Enterprises. Medium as a web page restating results rather than the results document.
  • Offshore hall of fame 2026 (pwcoffshore.com): Pwcoffshore Racing Hall of Fame (pwcoffshore.com, live page read October 2026), pwcoffshore.com; editorial, high. The hall's roster of eight with induction years, adding the two inductees of 23 November 2019 that the September 2019 capture predates, and the text of each citation, among them an induction speech. High for who it inducted and when; the citations are the hall's retrospective tribute, and a page that repeats one says whose words they are.
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“KC Heidler”, BaddJet archive, https://baddjetarchive.com/key-figures/kc-heidler/

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