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Show him the "facts" and hit him with a offer of $15k.

The airplane doesn't scare me as much as the seller does. Here is a guy who is either a) A pretty major liar or b) so clueless as to aircraft ownership that he has no business doing so.

If your pre-buy didn't show appreciable defects and you like the plane, I agree with the others...make an offer befitting the condition and history of the plane. State your findings to the seller in a non-confrontational manner and indicate that for these reasons, the airplane is only worth $XXX to you. I would also run a NAAA Evaluator appraisal and print it out, because I bet it will support your value (available free if you are a trade-a-plane subscriber...or find someone who is and will do it for you).

Then you will keep $10K in your pocket for those expenses that will come up later (and always do).

Rusty, as you said in your first post " Lets get to the chase"..... so here it is: If you want the plane and are happy buy it for what you feel it is worth. If the seller balks walk and ask for your money ($500) back since you stated in that transaction "subject to a satisfactory prebuy inspection." That again is your call.... what is satisfactory.

Will

A fellow pilot in the area was on final on a local grass strip when a high school student, (principal's son) hit a golf ball from the golf course that is in the flight pattern, that went through the windshield and hit the head of this pilot, causing a cut and bleeding. He did land immediately and safely. This is in the records as an,"accident/incident" from the hangar section of the club's. I think the only repair was a new windshield. No other damage if I recall.