Mooney mechanic in Omaha NE

[chrisk]

I'm looking to buy a Mooney that is located in Omaha NE. Can anyone recomend a good mechanic for a pre-buy? I called the Mooney service center in Lincoln, but wasn't really impressed with what I heard.

Thanks

Chris

[Joe Zuffoletto]

See if someone from Willmar Air Service is willing to come down. Those guys are as good with Mooneys as they come.

www.willmarairservice.com

[AndyFromCB]

Tim Tanner used to work at Advanced Air but now works for a medivac helicopter company, but is still available part time. He is a great mechanic and actually used to own a mooney for many years as well. He might be interested in doing a prebuy. If not them, then Glen at Advanced Air is a great, rather 'anal' A&P. If you're interested, PM for Tim's number. Advanced Air's web site is advancedaircb.com, Ron Gray is the head of maintenance.

As to Silverhawk in Lincoln, they are an ok bunch but only deal with about 3 mooneys on regular basis including mine. But they do good work on schedule, not the cheapest though.

Unless of course you're looking to buy the M20F that's for sale at Council Bluffs. If that's the case, I would not use Tim because he owned a part of that airplane so he might be biased and advanced air maintained it. If that's the airplane you're looking at, the red/white M20F, stop by and say hello. It's in hangar 39, mine is in hangar 38 ;-) It's a good deal, the engine was just freshly torn down by Central Cylinder because of a camshaft issue and they really do a super job on engines. One of those quiet shops in the middle of nowhere that does work for all the big name shops and most of the P51 overhauls in the country.