MS Mooney Posted October 29, 2019 Report Posted October 29, 2019 Greetings, I'm new to Mooney Space and hoping to be flying my own Mooney soon. I'm looking for an A&P that may be available in the Savannah Georgia area for a prebuy inspection. My preference would be to have someone travel to where the aircraft is based. Thanks for you suggestions.
Guest Posted October 29, 2019 Report Posted October 29, 2019 Welcome to Mooneyspace. You may find that getting a traveling A&P for a PPI will be challenging. Most of the good ones are busy at home in their shops. Being able to move the plane to a shop may have better results. Clarence
Davidv Posted October 29, 2019 Report Posted October 29, 2019 If there is no A&P where the plane is based with good Mooney experience, I would just look for the best A&P on the field (or immediate area) and then do your own research on the specific things to look for based on the model you are buying. The people on MS are usually more than happy to give you some pointers if asked. What kind of Mooney are you looking at?
jwilcoxon78 Posted October 29, 2019 Report Posted October 29, 2019 Agreed that having someone travel to do it will be difficult. I'd try to negotiate having it flown to a service center or Mooney specific shop for the prebuy.
daytonabch04 Posted October 29, 2019 Report Posted October 29, 2019 Recommend Cole Aviation in Dalton, GA. Should be a short flight there from Savannah. 1
xavierde Posted October 29, 2019 Report Posted October 29, 2019 AirMods? they are in NJ but the owner spends some time in GA.
Bob_Belville Posted October 30, 2019 Report Posted October 30, 2019 The seller should be willing to fly the plane to a MSC for a proper PPI. AGL @ KMRN does a lot of them. Today they did one for a buyer from Philadelphia. The plane was based in GA. Clean PPI on a nice C resulted in closing sale and continuing into an annual.Normally a PPI can be done in one day. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk 1
MS Mooney Posted October 30, 2019 Author Report Posted October 30, 2019 Thanks for welcoming me and thanks for all of the replies. Davidv, it is at '68 C model.
cferr59 Posted October 30, 2019 Report Posted October 30, 2019 I am the buyer that @Bob_Belville is referring to. I cannot speak highly enough of AGL and would agree with the recommendation that you go there. They found a number of issues that I am sure a non-Mooney shop would have missed, but nothing where it made sense to cancel the sale. No 50 year on airplane will be perfect, but you are looking for items that cost thousands to repair, not hundreds, and a non-Mooney shop might not know the problem areas to look at. A pre purchase inspection at a place of your choosing should be a condition of the sale. If the seller won't do that, it would be a good decision to find a different airplane. It certainly sucked waiting a few weeks for the seller to be available to make this trip after signing a purchase agreement. However, an airplane is a long term and very expensive purchase that can have hidden issues that cost more that the value of the airframe to repair. 2
carusoam Posted October 31, 2019 Report Posted October 31, 2019 Great pirep, cferr! Thanks for supplying the details. Best regards, -a-
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