Tom, How right you are...we paid for the annual on N99893.... it was in the process of being polished out.... annual was due so let them do it... bad mistake.... Never even got home with it before Wayne, had a shoe full of gas... that one really got me upset and a few others.
The alon, not a whole lot better..... her log books showed she had been in Santa Monica, Cal..for 14 years same owner.... showed she had just had a annual the month before and all was ok.... also showed it hadn't flown but 14 tack hours from the other annual. No damage was noted any where, in what appeared to be complete paper work. We flew her home.... taking her airborne with another planes instruments, coming out as a pair.... course lots of radios didn't work and other minor things.... we flew her for almost one year noticing that she seems wing heavy on her left side. When we put her in for the annual the following year our mechanic found that the left aliron, was full of bondo.... (about 30 lbs) they had missed the ribs and the rivets went no where.... made one a little uneasy. It took a new one to make her airworthy.... some ap/IA, that signed off on that plane new this and gave it a 3 martini annual.... not right but it does happen. there was no entry any where in her logs to any repair or accident on this plane. I managed to clear up her title once I found who had taken over the bank in Long Beach, Cal...that carrird a bank note on her..... it was paid off but the pay off had never been sent to the FAA to clear the title to her. Wouldn't touch one again without my own mechanic. there to inspect same. Audean Woollard N6596Q
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