aopa purchase agreement
the buyer was in a hurry to get an airplane for his flight school. having bought an airplane and facing work that is a significant percentage of its value is not where you want to be, ever. if the seller is unwilling to send you copies of the logbooks, photos of the airplane and/or schedule a prebuy exam, walk away. you do not want to deal with the cost of litigation with a bank that discovered a lien in its old files and is out to collect. fly an airplane before you buy it and have a maintenance technician you select—and has never worked on the airplane before—do a prebuy exam. you are obligated to close up the airplane so that the seller can fly it away. if the buyer asks if the airplane is airworthy, your answer is “ask your mechanic after s/he does the prebuy.” “airworthy” has a distinct legal meaning—and it’s not for you to say whether it is or not unless you are about to be pilot in command of a flight.