No Damage History?

It also may be irrelavant. Take a Cub for example. My mechanic
specializes in taking wrecked or otherwise unairworthy Cubs and turning
them into pieces of flying art. He gets top dollar. Same goes for the
desirable planes like Cessna 180/182/185/206. Guys that read only
newsgroups care about a replaced firewall. My firewall has been
replaced twice. There's no discount for that. My plane had some
stringers replaced in the main gear area, we think due to a hard
landing. Again there's no discount for that. But on a Cherokee or a
Musketeer there would be.

Jay Honeck wrote:

Now that was 29.5 years ago on a 30 year old airplane. Would you say
my plane has "damage history"?

Jay, you know the answer to that question. Namely, it depends upon

whether

I am selling, or buying! {:)


Ah, good point. ;-)

It didn't deter me, though. And as the fleet gets older and older, the
odds of finding a true "NDH" aircraft become less and less.

"CFLav8r" wrote in message
om...
I'm wondering what everyone else's definition of "Damage History" is.
After looking through Ebay for a Cessna 172 I ran across this description:

I visited a website that I could look up the history of an aircraft by tail
number but didn't bookmark it and can't find it again. :-(

Does anyone have that website url available? It's not the NTSB query, it
gives discrepancies that were reported to the FAA.

Thanks!

You may be thinking of http://www.myairplane.com Look under Aircraft
Background Investigation on the menu bar

Mike

"Sven" wrote:

"CFLav8r" wrote in message
om...
I'm wondering what everyone else's definition of "Damage History" is.
After looking through Ebay for a Cessna 172 I ran across this
description:

I visited a website that I could look up the history of an aircraft by
tail number but didn't bookmark it and can't find it again. :-(

Does anyone have that website url available? It's not the NTSB query,
it gives discrepancies that were reported to the FAA.

Thanks!

"Mike Adams" wrote in message news:4m2Kb.46498$m83.46269@fed1read01...
You may be thinking of http://www.myairplane.com Look under Aircraft
Background Investigation on the menu bar

Doesn't do a very good job. I looked up my N number which I know is in the NTSB
database. All I get is my ownership records.

But the eBay plane finds more stuff

PILOT MADE A HARD LANDING. BOUNCED AND LANDED ON NOSE WHEEL

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message om...
"Mike Adams" wrote in message news:4m2Kb.46498$m83.46269@fed1read01...
You may be thinking of http://www.myairplane.com Look under Aircraft
Background Investigation on the menu bar

Doesn't do a very good job. I looked up my N number which I know is in the NTSB database. All I get is my ownership records.


Ron,
I thought that site was pretty good. I think between the information
provided by the site

http://www.myairplane.com/databases/aircraft_report/

and a copy of the individual aircraft record (which now comes in cd
instead of microfice format for $5.00)

http://registry.faa.gov/aircraft.asp...ircraftrecords

one can learn a lot about the history of a plane.

Was checking on plane history of half a dozen or so 152 trainers
which I had flown as a student at the myairplane site and found quite
a few of them with serious damage history (mostly by soloed students).
Had to wonder whether the average time to solo at a given school goes
up with the number of accidents.

I went the the avweb website. From there to the FAA. Database. They said you
could not look up owners name because of security!

Sven wrote:

"CFLav8r" wrote in message
om...
I'm wondering what everyone else's definition of "Damage History" is.
After looking through Ebay for a Cessna 172 I ran across this description:

I visited a website that I could look up the history of an aircraft by tail
number but didn't bookmark it and can't find it again. :-(

Does anyone have that website url available? It's not the NTSB query, it
gives discrepancies that were reported to the FAA.

Thanks!

Tony Woolner wrote:

I went the the avweb website. From there to the FAA. Database. They said you
could not look up owners name because of security!

Interesting. It's available from http://www.landings.com . A flying club in WI.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."