There’s the issue with this one
Rob. There are absolutely NO records, none, zero, nada, zilch. But I’ve
already decided to walk away from it.
Danny
Miller
N 38° 43'
27"
W 77° 30'
38"
From:
rwolf99@aol.com [mailto:rwolf99@aol.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010
11:10 AM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: Re: [LML] 360 N33AN
document question
I have to disagree with
Colyn on this one. The aircraft was obviously sound in initial
workmanship as evidenced by the fact that it has flown for 15 years.
You do not mention the total hours but I assume it's in the hundreds or maybe
approaching a thousand. What you need to be concerned about is, for lack
of a better phrase, wear and tear. This should be apparent to a qualified
inspector.
I'd recommend having
someone familiar with the Lancair, but that's probably not essential. You
might have a local A&P doing a pre-buy inspection call the factory, or one
of the guys at RDD or Aircrafters, or someone like that, for advice on what to
look for. In your shoes I would be willing to pay a fee for the half-hour
of their time to share this expertise with your local A&P.
There may be some unique
features where the Lancair ages less gracefully than other airplanes, such as
the attachment of the nose gear drag link to the strut, are the factory service
bulletins complied with (available on line), and so forth. There are
other issues, such as was the self-centering mod done to the nose strut, which
came around after the aircraft was built. On these matters it would help
to have a Lanair-familiar dude look at it. But I would not shy away from
this airplane simply because there is no photo album of the build in progress.
That's my two cents, which
is probably all my advice is worth anyway...
For what it's worth, I
have very detailed records of how I have spent my time and money on the
airplane, but very few pictures.