I'm gonna butt in here on the side of the prospective buyer on this one. If this is a first airplane or someone with minimal experience dealing with planes that have sat, I can see how they'd walk away from this situation. If things didn't look promising, I'd be worried about what else I would find or how much it would cost me. I'd be viewing this type of aircraft as more of a project rather than something I could fly soon. Weather or not I could take on such a project would depend upon my financial circumstances and other resources, such as the availability of a hangar in which I could work on the plane as well as an A&P to assist me if I wasn't up to the task myself.

It may not be all that bad but I wouldn't be buying it myself unless I was up to the task of thoroughly going over the plane and able to fix it up.

David Rowland 7CO0
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