No Damage History: And Other Sales Lies

There are some awful airplanes out there - and sellers willing to misrepresent them. What to look for in a world where the buyer must be wary.

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Rick Durden
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A gorgeous Cessna 180 in its natural habitat—the backcountry. Before you drop a pile of money buying it, you’ve got to do your detective work to make sure it won’t take another pile of money to make it airworthy.
Aircraft buyers value the phrase “no damage history” so highly when searching for a flying machine to buy that it has caused a certain subset of aircraft owners and brokers to take sometimes drastic steps to cover up the fact that the airplane they want to sell has been damaged and repaired. After all, if […]
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