David R. wrote:
: The Cessna Pilots Association (CPA) publishes guides to buying most types of
: cessnas. These guides discuss important items on the prebuy inspection. In
: addition, cessna.com lists all of their cessna certified maintenance shops.
: When I bought, I had the plane flown to a field with such a shop (which was
: of course referenced and was neutral), met it there, test flew it and had
: the shop do a prebuy according to the CPA guide. Hope this helps.

Also, I forgot to mention that you can look up all the AD's against the plane
right from the faa website. You really need to look through all applicable ones (for
airframe *and* engine) for any plane you're seriously considering. Those are the ones
that can bite you hard, although I think the 150/152's are pretty resonable.

-Cory


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