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N9849W

Put back on Barnstormers for sale on February 20 2010.

I just wanted to make some information available to others as of February 2010.

It is a beautiful looking aircraft as it was completely rebuilt in 2000 and raffled at the 2000 Oshkosh meet. White with red striping.

But after my pre buy inspection that cost me $1500, I wanted to make this information available to all. Repairs estimated at $4400.00

1) It has several outstanding ADs. The exhaust system and the the oil cooler lines are the major ones.

2) It had a prop strike in 2009. The AD for that incident was followed but the engine was not torn down. 3 hours after that the crankshaft oil seal leaked. The seal has been repaired, but only .3 hours have been flown since. Read into this as you will...

Huh, I looked at this ad a few days ago and wondered why it was so inexpensive. I guess you do get what you pay for. Last friday i drove 3 hours to inspect a 172 for sale on barnstormers. I wondered why on the phone I talked the guy down so low on the price. I found out when I got there it was worth even less. Always look hard at the logbooks and do a good pre buy inspection.

a month later

Several months have gone by and I wanted to update this post. It looks like the plane was sold.. and according to Flight Tracker it is in Indiana. I hope that this information was valuable to potential buyers as well as the person who purchased it.

If only the seller would have worked with me as the buyer, none of this would have ever been posted.

Although I pissed off the seller I still feel that I did the right thing and can only hope that others will post their "discoveries" when it comes to buying and selling aircraft.

Rich