In a message dated 1/25/99 1:14:03 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< I agree with you about getting an annual, not a pre-buy, when you buy an airplane. >> The following is a personnel story on the other side of the fence. Owner selling an aircraft to a buyer. 1989 I had a 46 415C for sale for $8,500. The new buyer talked me into flying it to another airport 400 miles away so his IA could do an annual at his expense. Annual had been done by my IA 2 weeks before. The new buyers IA tore my airplane completely a apart and at that time the new buyer found out he could not get the money from his bank so he walked away from it. So his IA told me I would have to pay for it and at that time I was still feeling OK because I had the new potential buyers $1000 earnest money. Now here is where it goes down hill the IA handed me a bill for $2600 to complete plus $50 per day for the shop space that my airplane was taking up. And it would be 3 weeks before he could get back at it. So to make long story short after deducting the $1000 earnest money it still cost me $2500 plus my time. So for that the log books showed 2 annuals 2 months apart with no parts no squawks. So for $2500 I can say been there done that and won't go there again. Jim Palmer N5642F
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