As a practicing A/P and IA I would recommend you hire a different mechanic
than the one who usually maintains any prospective airplane. Preferably find a local (your airport) trusted mechanic and fly him into look at any that sound good. we just hate to see weekly someone buy a "real piece of crappoloa" freshly annualed that has all kinds of problems if the owner had just asked us. He will probably want you to get the last few annuals and pages of each log book in advance to see what type of maintenance it's getting. We just hate to see just a stamp for 40 years with no entries other than the once a year oil-change some people settle for./tom
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