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![]() My club is purchasing another 172. One of the choices we've found - and otherwise nice airplane - has racked up 10,000 hours total time. Most of the other aircraft at which we've looked have had TTs of something less than half this. Are there special considerations for an airframe with this much time? Is it just a matter of looking for fatigue (which I'd expect any annual do to anyway), or is there more? I did some web searching. One phrase I found in: http://www.avweb.com/news/reviews/182570-1.html bugged me a bit: some of these aircraft are still going strong well beyond 10,000 hours So is that 10,000 a line beyond which one starts to expect an aircraft to not be "going strong"? In the same article, I found: In short, Cessna has now gone from having the worst corrosion-proofing in the industry to having the best. The airframes of the 1997 Cessna singles will undoubtedly last as long as anyone wants to fly them. We're looking at late 1970/early 1980 aircraft. Are they in the "worst corrosion-proofing" window? I've been pointed at: http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsite...5cracks-ac.pdf but a cursory glance makes me think this is aimed more at someone getting an aircraft certified than anything else. No? Any other thoughts, recommendations, suggestions, etc. would be most welcome. Thanks... Andrew |
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