The owner just had an annual performed in Aug by a mechanic in Heber Springs. I'm hoping for a A&P recommendation at a different location so I can get an objective 3rd party to perform the pre-buy.
That's a good decision. I bought my former 152 in 2001 when the local flight school went out of business and put it up for sale. I didn't know any better, so I asked the A&P who had been maintaining it to do the prebuy, but I asked him to do it as an annual inspection so at least the plane had to meet the Airworthiness standards. Fortunately, he's an upstanding A&P and I had rented the same plane for the previous 6 years, so everything worked out and I had a very good plane. Owned it until 2017 when I had to hang up my wings and sold it.
If you buy that plane, try to arrange to have a CFI come along and log your flight time as x-country hours. You will learn so much about navigation, ATC communication, weather, etc on that trip.
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