AD Database ?

" I would sure hate to buy something only
find it wouldn't be flyable without big bucks being sunk into it first."

Be sure to do a good pre-buy inspection and use the AOPA services that will
do title searches and such. There shouldn't be any reason that you buy a
plane with anything "surprising" about it in the paperwork.

jf

Jeff wrote:
" I would sure hate to buy something only
find it wouldn't be flyable without big bucks being sunk into it first."

Be sure to do a good pre-buy inspection and use the AOPA services that will
do title searches and such. There shouldn't be any reason that you buy a
plane with anything "surprising" about it in the paperwork.

The pre-buy definitely should turn up any non-compliances, but you should also
add language to the sale contract to the effect that the owner warrants that all
ADs have been complied with and agrees to pay compliance cost if this turns out
to be not the case.

Of course, if you are knowingly buying an aircraft that has outstanding ADs,
that language would have to be worded to exclude those.

IMO, an owner who is claiming that all ADs have been handled will have no
hesitation in signing such an agreement. I certainly didn't when I sold aircraft.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.

The question arises when the owner THINKS all the ADs have been complied
with.

After I bought my Cherokee I found out that the oil pump AD need to be done
at the next overhaul, or by some time in 2003 (I think). Something that
three different IAs missed was the fact that the next overhaul must occur at
or before TBO. Mine had been beyond TBO for two annuals and my pre-buy.

The IA who did the pre-buy offered to replace the pump at no cost, but he
was 300 miles away.

So I had the choice of having it done locally for $800 or flying the plane
three hundred miles, staying in a hotel while it was fixed, and flying it
back home.


"George Patterson" wrote in message
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The pre-buy definitely should turn up any non-compliances, but you should
also
add language to the sale contract to the effect that the owner warrants
that all
ADs have been complied with and agrees to pay compliance cost if this
turns out
to be not the case.

Of course, if you are knowingly buying an aircraft that has outstanding
ADs,
that language would have to be worded to exclude those.

IMO, an owner who is claiming that all ADs have been handled will have no
hesitation in signing such an agreement. I certainly didn't when I sold
aircraft.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your
neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.