Dgamble
Well Known Member
It is with decidedly mixed emotions that I report that my RV-6 finally sold. The decision between which airplane to sell (the RV-6 that I bought already flying, or the RV-12 that I built myself) was much harder than I had anticipated, but I decided on keeping the 12.
The sales process took a couple of years, but eventually my tried-and-true strategy for amassing great wealth, which can be summarized as "Buy high, sell low," finally paid off in the selling of the 6 at the very bottom of the market.
But the real fun began when I had a solidly interested buyer and I had to fly the plane out to the DC area for a pre-buy inspection:
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The sales process took a couple of years, but eventually my tried-and-true strategy for amassing great wealth, which can be summarized as "Buy high, sell low," finally paid off in the selling of the 6 at the very bottom of the market.
But the real fun began when I had a solidly interested buyer and I had to fly the plane out to the DC area for a pre-buy inspection:
The big scare began with, "Hey, you ought to come look at this too."
They had found what was either a crack in the paint or a crack in one of the welds where the landing gear is supported by the engine mount. A crack in a weld is orders of magnitude worse than a crack the paint. In fact, a crack in the weld would have very likely been a show-stopper. Repairing it would require the complete removal of the engine and mount to repair the weld, which means hours and hours and hours of labor. And that, my friends, got me very tensed up, very quickly.
It was twenty minutes before the verdict came in...
See more at: http://www.schmetterlingaviation.com/2013/07/signed-sealed-delivered.html