"Matthew P. Cummings" wrote:

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:52:35 -0500, Dan Luke wrote:

the "serious" buyers have been worse. Some
insist on their mechanics doing an annual at some out of town shop (no
way!), another got my friend to fly out of town for a pre-buy, then didn't

That's plain silly. When I buy a plane there is no way I'm letting the
mechanic who knows the owner and has done the previous annuals do my
pre-buy. If an owner won't let a third party examine it then I'd be
suspicious about what he's covering up.

Beg to differ. If my plane was for sale, any potential buyer who
insists on taking it out of town for a pre-buy annual inspection can
take a hike. No problem if they want to bring their mechanic on-site
for an inspection. But if that inspection is going to amount to a
full-blown annual, I'd want some kind of agreement to purchase if no
"serious" problems are found. The risk to the seller of something
getting broken, or not being put back together correctly, by an
unknown mechanic, is not insubstantial.

Jim Rosinski
N3825Q