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Hung,

You ARE the man! You always manage to come up with the right answer-technical or philosophical! I need to talk to you sometime about my marriage-

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Congrats Tim, on your future purchase. I too am glad that you "did the right thing". The GA community is small and tight and we need to take care of each other. Your "former seller" clearly recognized this and that's why it was easy to explain the situation to him.

And my compliments to that gentleman, whoever he was.

Its fortunate that 22741 was "pickled" and that its been recently flown (200 hours in the past 2 years is a good amount). I'm sure that it's in excellent condition, now. I just felt that it should be mentioned.

But someone had to pull it out of its mothballs and my experience with "preserved" parts and planes is that its like sleeping - sure, its not as tough on the bird as sitting in the puckerbrush, but ya both wake up in the morning a little bit older. "Pickled" is not the same as "no passage of time".

When I was first contemplating buying a plane, a wise-old mechanic said, "Don't do it unless you're going to use it. Planes have big props and little wheels because they were born to fly and not sit on the ground."

Just one more pithy thing and then I'll shut-up: ANY airplane which has your name on its registration is a beautiful and well loved plane; your joy and your friend. Which brings me back to why I need to speak to Hung . . .

Good luck with your new love.

Roger