K. Ari Krupnikov wrote:

"BTIZ" writes:


best way I can think of would be to look at the aircraft maintenance logs,
granted repairs could be made and not entered.. and unscrupulous thing but
it happens.


Of course. But you can look up an N number on NTSB before you ever get
to meet the owner - saves time. Of course if an accident was never
reported, NTSB won't have it either.

You don't even have to do that. Just google the N-number. That will
turn up NTSB reports, SDR reports, and sometimes unofficial information
that seller didn't even know about or didn't know you could find (like
the last owner's webpage where he describes the time it ate a valve, etc).