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Originally Posted by afterburn 549
The horrible thing about civilian aircraft is no maint records are made to follow it.
Not like military.
Albeit you may get some .
It is a crap shoot looking at the history
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When we went to look at the 182 we ended up buying we landed and tied down a few dozen feet from it. Certainly we took the cursory look at the paint and interior, but it was HOT on the ramp. We went inside and their line boy moved it into the hangar for us.
The first point of negotiations was the logs. It is not just one binder, it is a huge encyclopedia size set of books. Our mechanic went with us, and he is meticulous. He looked for gaps or anything out of the ordinary. We then took it for a test flight over to Lloyd Steerman Filed for a great hamburger.
We fly back the few miles to the James Jabara field and gave them a verbal commitment to buy. We already had the escrow account set up, and with that info they let us have the log books to take with us. They were all in order and we found very little that needed attention.
I can't imagine buying a airplane without good logs.