There are many things to think about when buying an airplane but a couple
that concern airframes a
1: you can't make it younger
2: you can't make it straighter (reasonably)
Money can fix just about everything else, but no amount will never roll back
the TTAF meter.

As the fleet of GA airplanes gets older there are more and more airplanes
approaching 9000+ hours, so the question becomes with all things considered,
how much of an effect does the high time have on this airplane's value? The
TwinCo is not so rare a bird that there aren't or won't be other comparative
examples on the market with lower total airframe times, even if they have
slightly higher asking prices. If you look around it's normally easy to
find older twins advertised for no more than the value of their engines,
props, and radios but even in these instances they often have much less than
9000 hours TT.

Jim



"E Andersen" wrote in message
...

On a twin of that age and advertised at that sale price, I would set
aside
NO LESS than an additional 50% for additional repair and maintenance that
you may incur during your first year of ownership.


yeah, I am aware of that, I was more concerned about the airframe, 9000
hours sounds like a lot, I dont know