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In addition to what Lynn & Ed said: I consider a Title Search essential for a prudent buyer. You never know until then what glitches may appear that are not apparent from the FAA disk. AOPA's title folks will do a fast turnaround...but not quite on-the-spot-purchase fast. (For an example of what can turn up: my 'Coupe's seller purchased it, he said, from a parting-out yard that didn't want to part out this one. But the reg documents showed his title chain as coming from a private party, who turned out to be the owner *before the yard*! When the FAA wrote prior owner and said "where's your reg slip?" he replied that he'd sold to a *parting out dealer* -- not to my seller. Turns out the prior owner had given the yard a blank bill of sale, but had failed to turn in his old registration signed off. So until the record was cleaned up, it looked for a while like the prior owner could have sold twice: once to my seller, and once to the parting-out dealer. Had it not been cleaned up, could have clouded title if/when I ever re-sell...not that I would, of course. ) Linda From: Ercoupe Hangar Flying <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:00:07 -0800 To: Ercoupe Hangar Flying <[email protected]> Subject: Digest list: Ercoupe Hangar Flying ---------------------------- From: "Ed Burkhead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Gonzalez, Robert'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"Cflyin" <[email protected]> Reply-To: "Ed Burkhead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [COUPERS-FLYIN] RE: Digest list: Ercoupe Hangar Flying Besides what Lynn said, beware of "rush" situations when buying a plane. At a fly-in or convention, there's pressure to buy on the spot. But how can you * Get the FAA CD disk of all the paperwork and look through it for problems such as model D conversion? * Get a mechanic to do a good pre-purchase inspection? Those two things are, IMHO, essential to the airplane buying process and should never be skipped. JMHO Ed Burkhead http://edburkhead.com ed -at- edburkhead???.com (change -at- to @ and remove "???") ============================================================================== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
