The Illustrated Buyers Guide To Used Airplanes

The best way for private pilots with limited means to obtain the plane of their dreams is to purchase a used one -- and there's no better way to buy one without getting burned than this heavily illustrated guide. Focusing on airplanes priced at $100,000 or less, the author walks readers through the entire process of purchasing a used plane: prospecting the market, determining a plane's true value, closing the deal, partnership, and much more. Audience includes the more than 700,000 private pilots in the U.S. New chapters on Sport Pilot Licenses and Light-Sport Aircraft All models and prices updated New airworthiness directives (ADs) and all new regulations

Bill Clarke wrote this book to assist the prospective buyer in the search for an economical used airplane. Every step is considered, from how to determine the size & type of craft needed to how to decipher used airplane ads.

Used airplanes have greater investment value than most stock options. This book features: many planes that are type-certified and entered into production; ads and STCs; contemporary prices; directory information; and a chapter focusing on investment value - including specific recommendations.

The complete guide to finding, inspecting, and buying a Cessna aircraft. If you're even thinking about buying your own Cessna, this book's advice on ADs, inspection and logbooks, and the pitfalls of certain models, could easily save you hundreds of times the cover price. It is packed with authoritative buying advice for all Cessnas from the Model AA of the 1920s to the Caravans and Citations of today.

The first scholarly book to examine in detail the role of masculinity in aviation, Weekend Pilots adds new dimensions to our understanding of embedded gender and its long-term effects.

Rule number one in aircraft buying is to always buy with an eye towards selling. If you can't buy today and sell tomorrow at a profit, don't buy! That's easier said than done, of course. This book tells you how to make that happen not just some time but every time. Buy an airplane that violates ANY of the "Top Ten BUYER Wants" and you Will Absolutely have trouble selling it. Eventually you will succeed but at a steep discount and with many sleepless nights beforehand. This book teaches what those "Top Ten Wants" are and how to find a group of sellers that NO other buyer knows anything about. It will also show you that the most important log book to review is the current owner/pilot's log book not his airplane's airframe, engine or propeller log books. His log tells you HOW the airplane was flown. This book teaches you why that's so important.Now is the best time in the history of earth to buy a used general aviation aircraft for two important reasons. First, the asking prices for used airplanes offered for sale are at an all-time low when adjusted for inflation and seen as a percentage of the purchase price of a similar new aircraft. Second, money is cheaper than it has ever been. The purchase of this book includes a FREE one year subscription ($17.95 value) to the $100 Hamburger website www.100dollarhamburger.com. It has been around for two decades and is the favorite website of recreational flyers.