The person doing the preceding inspection should have some record
of when last inspection was done, time in service, possible his
printout if he did
one of AD's applicable.
In terms of compliance- the guy who signs off will need to repeat
documentation
of compliance which means repeating inspections, etc. Reconstuction of
repairs can be
helped by getting the complete file on the ship from the FAA in OK
City. It costs about $10 and
comes on a CD. Any 337's filed for the ship will be in this file.
Other repairs, if done by a repair station
can be reconstructed from their work orders if they still have them on
file.
Sorry for your pain.
UH

No pain for me. I'm shopping, not selling (well, not yet but I have
the logs for my ship)