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Does anyone have any thoughts on the 1982 231 for sale on ebay?  It has 1100 tt but the tail and prop has been removed.  Why would they do that?  I would like to upgrade and don't mind doing a little work but curious as to why it would be handled this way.  

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https://www.ebay.com/itm/1982-Mooney-231-M-20K-1100TT-since-new-one-owner/123210449138?hash=item1cafea40f2:g:IsMAAOSwbKRbL~fw

The auction is currently at $42K. There is no room left to make this a "heck of a deal".

You would end up with probably the lowest time 231 in the world.  But it will cost you.

Cheers,

Dan

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Wow! 

"It take a good 6 hrs to reassemble correctly The tail bolts back on in less than hr and the rest of time is reinstalling the wiring plugs all are marked."

I just can't imagine anything going wrong!  ;) Nor can I imagine why there is only i bid on it!

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I think it was Morristown from which I would never buy an aircraft. I was looking (in silico) at a Mooney there when some digging turned up the fact that the thing was in a flood. They dried it out, slapped some paint on it and were trying to sell it.  They neglected to tell me about its submersion when I inquired about the aircraft’s history. Found a sucker too. The sad thing is when the mill unsurprisingly quit the guy was a couple sheets to the wind. The FAA blamed him for the crash and not the fakirs who sold him a dangerous airplane. And that isn’t the last questionable thing to come out of there.

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