WANTED - Pants Mounting Plates

[2356]

That’s a good looking plane. I hope it works out for you. By the way, did you fly in the Army?

[6643]

he won’t let the IA take the books to look at them for fear of them disappearing,

That's not unreasonable. It happens way too often. Copying pages and sending/emailing them is not an unreasonable request, though.

he doesn’t understand why an annual is required, it just had one.

Call it a pre-purchase inspection.

[a64pilot]

That’s a good looking plane. I hope it works out for you. By the way, did you fly in the Army?

If that was for me, we have a signed purchase agreement, have sort of worked through that the equipment list is incorrect. they advertised a Garmin 345 xponder, 337 says 335, about a $3,000 difference.
Then I noticed in the photos the airplane has Hoerner style tips, and that’s not what it was built with, no 337 in the FAA CD, but they came up with a 337 that covers the tips.
Today I found out from the title company that there is still a lien from way back in 1968 I believe so it doesn’t have clear title and of course I won’t buy it without that.

We will see where it goes, owner apparently paid a whole lot more for it a few years ago that it will sell for now, and apparently they didn’t do a through title search, so they are very unhappy to say the least.

But I’m only asking two things, Airworthy and clear title, doesn’t seem unreasonable to me?

Yes I flew in the Army, I was an AH-64A and later D model test pilot for I guess 15 years. Retired however almost two decades ago

[a64pilot]

he won’t let the IA take the books to look at them for fear of them disappearing,

That's not unreasonable. It happens way too often. Copying pages and sending/emailing them is not an unreasonable request, though.

I’ve seen way too often pages that were forgotten to be copied though.
In fact I was standing there when I saw an aircraft dealer take a razor blade and carefully cut out a logbook page because if contained entries where the aircraft was repaired after a crash.

Unfortunately log book pages are not numbered, they should be, I have no idea why they aren’t.

No, I want to see the log book, the actual logbook.

However to a great extent what’s in the logbook isn’t really what concerns me, it’s what was done and not recorded in the logbook that does.
When looking for a C-210 one I found it was obvious it was landed gear up, but nothing in the book

You don’t do a pre-purchase inspection largely because there is no such thing, an Annual however is spelled out, and any decent pre-purchase should be as good as an annual, so why not get credit for it and reset that clock?

A simple airplane like a 140 for instance, if y9u know where to look, you can tell almost everything. important in a couple of hours, but a complex aircraft that I’m unfamiliar with, not so much Add in it’s over 50 years old, and it needs an annual for me to buy.

[a64pilot]

he won’t let the IA take the books to look at them for fear of them disappearing,

That's not unreasonable. It happens way too often. Copying pages and sending/emailing them is not an unreasonable request, though.

I’ve seen way too often pages that were forgotten to be copied though.
In fact I was standing there when I saw an aircraft dealer take a razor blade and carefully cut out a logbook page because if contained entries where the aircraft was repaired after a crash, all it took to have “no damage history” was a razor blade

Unfortunately log book pages are not numbered, they should be, I have no idea why they aren’t.

No, I want to see the log book, the actual logbook.

However to a great extent what’s in the logbook isn’t really what concerns me, it’s what was done and not recorded in the logbook that does.
When looking for a C-210 one I found it was obvious it was landed gear up, but nothing in the book

You don’t do a pre-purchase inspection largely because there is no such thing, an Annual however is spelled out, and any decent pre-purchase should be as good as an annual, so why not get credit for it and reset that clock?

A simple airplane like a 140 for instance, if y9u know where to look, you can tell almost everything. important in a couple of hours, but a complex aircraft that I’m unfamiliar with, not so much Add in it’s over 50 years old, and it needs an annual for me to buy.

[theor18]

I just bought a c140 and it has wheel pant brackets on it. I planned on taking them off once I get the plane back home. I sent you a private message.