"Dan Luke" writes:

"Jay Honeck" wrote:
a hangar queen that was owned by a multi-person
partnership.

That's a *really* bad sign. Hard to fit this fact into any scenario
that includes "good airplane."

I agree. Sounds like at least one of the partners stopped paying his
share of maintenance--then the others didn't want to pay either--then
maintenance stopped--then flying stopped. Not good.