Your suggestion of offering the full asking price with the stipulation that all issues affecting airworthiness (found by the annual I would pay for) are resolved by the seller at seller expense is a good one and I am thinking along those lines.
However, I have disscussed this airplane with my FAA manuafaturing inspector co-workers (also A&P's and IA's) and there is one thing that may wash the sale up. Again, the FAA (record center in Oklahoma City) has no FAA form 337's on file to cover the major repairs due to the hard landing and run-in with a fence 20 years ago, and also no 337 to cover the flap and aileron gap seals (a major alteration usually requiring a Supplemental Type Certificate). Assuming that the repairs and data were not done in accordance with FAA approved Cessna Type Design Data (or a Cessna maintenance and repair manual), the airplane is in violation of FAR 43.9 and Appendix B to FAR 43. I feel the seller is honest and willing to show all records. These issues did occur long before the current seller bought the airplane. But still, the seller would have to obtain 337's somehow to cover the major repair and major alteration. Otherwise, I will have to take a pass. Too bad, because I do like the airplane and it has many attractive features.
