Know anything about this 231?

[Buster1]

http://www.trade-a-plane.com/clsfdspecs/845800

Anyone know anything about this 231 in AZ?  Looks great, says there is no motor, but the price is pretty good.

[Cruiser]

Barron Thomas involved ?

[Earl]

It seems like a good price but it is very, very weird to be selling an airplane with the engine removed.  Wonder why this is the case.  This one would deserve some serious scrutiny of the logbooks and a really good explanation.  Lots of information missing from the advertisement.

[Magnum]

I wouldn't touch it. Without the engine you can't fly it, so you won't know if something isn't the way it should before you paid for it. It is also harder to get a good prebuy at the place you prefer. Buying cheap can get very expensive. I don't understand why they don't put in the engine (or get a overhaul if necessary) and get more money for it. Someone wants to get rid of it. In the aviation noone is giving something away for free.

[Buster1]

Quote: Magnum

 In the aviation noone is giving something away for free.

[KSMooniac]

I wouldn't touch this one either...very strange to try to sell it with the engine off, and you have no idea what might or might not be included until you try to put an engine back on...you'd have to worry about the accessories, baffling, mount, controls, etc. and if you try to buy all of that separately it will be very expensive, plus a lot of hassle to procure.  Maybe there was a prop strike or something, but who knows.  If you could get the plane as-is with the engine and everything included, it might be worth $60k IMO, but it sure sounds risky to me.  I'm not sure what an outright price is for a TSIO-360, but I'd have to guess $40k, so before you have any labor to make it airworthy you'd be at $85k and now you're close to other planes that are ready to fly.

[RJBrown]

Air power sells it for $37,250 plus a $15,700 core.