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OFF THE MARKET (Seller has found a way to retain ownership and continue flying this little gem) 1970 Cessna 150 for sale in Nebraska. Asking $25,000. About 3,800 hours TT air frame. Engine about 900 hours SMOH. New propeller. Front of cowling has the typical stress crack repairs. Otherwise, many new items and well maintained example of classic Cessna 150.

Wayne
1978 Cessna 152
Lincoln, NE

Just out of curiosity, what's the reason for blanking out the tail number if he's trying to sell it? One of the first things I would do if I were interested in an airplane is look up any accident history. If I were selling an airplane, I would *want* folks to do their research and call me only if they are really interested. May want to suggest Dennis get you a different photo.

I thought the same thing

No reason unless there is something to hide…

Unless he doesn’t want to listen to all local airport chitter chatter…..He’s asking HOW much? He only paid this much. Why’s he selling it, has he lost his medical? Blah, blah, blah.

I say this having recently seen a friend selling his 172 and listening to all the garbage from the peanut gallery.

A serious buyer will always pick up the phone and ask.

Oh, and god help him if he puts it on facebook where all the pricing experts hang out, most of whom have probably never owned an aircraft themselves..,

Good question. If listings were only available to club members, with valid log-in credentials, then tail number would be visible. Since listing is open to the World Wide Web, tail number is obscured. As Martin notes, very easy to give the owner a call to request tail number, as well as other information about the aircraft.

Wayne

If your serious about a possible purchase and not just tire kicking, give the owner a call or e mail.

The first thing I do when I see a plane for sale is look up the tail # in the government data base. If all looks fine, I check out the owner on Google. After this, if I was still interested I would call the owner for questions. One can also order the disk on the history of the plane. And one needs to be aware, not all repairs may not be logged into the log book. Talking to the mechanic from the last annual or a number of annuals previously can help. Also talking to the airport pilots in the area could give some advice. I think some may appear very cautious as selling planes, can be like horse trading and not all is known about the plane or horse and the seller may not be willing to reveal things that should be revealed? In this game, a number of pilots have really gotten burned on a plane that was represented inaccurately. I do not understand how a plane can pass an annual before sale and then when the buyer has the next annual, there are many things that should have been addressed by the seller in the annual before the plane was bought.

I'll give an example of how it CAN happen.
1) New pilot/first-time buyer who knows nothing about buying airplanes, isn't a member of a type club yet, and has no local pilot friends yet to ask for guidance, finds aircraft for sale and goes to look at it. Seeing it's in rough shape he wants to rescue it from rotting away because no one has bought it yet.
2) Slick seller who offers said unknowing buyer an annual with purchase in place of a pre-buy inspection. "If there's anything wrong with it, it'll come out in the annual and I'll pay for it."
3) Annual being done by seller's mechanic, who yes, is familiar with the plane, but is also friends with the seller and also does the annual on the seller's Cherokee and wants to retain that business as well, so he pencil-whips said annual to get the plane out the door, paid for the annual, the seller some money, and continued business from the seller, and praise to other pilot owners from the seller for his great work an quick turnaround on the annual.

Sure, talk to the mechanic familiar with the plane, but at all costs, if you're serious, get a prebuy inspection done by an A&P that's never seen the plane before and will give a completely objective inspection.

It's common. Owners constantly pressure mechanics to let things go, some mechanics will pencil-whip an annual without question. There are a lot of bad actors out there and a lot of awful airplanes for sale. Never, ever buy an airplane with a "fresh annual" or worse "fresh overhaul" without an in depth prebuy exam - and if the exam goes well, have the mechanic go on and do a full annual. https://www.avweb.com/features/the-pilots-lounge-71-fresh-annual-and-other-hooks-for-suckers/