Informational & Reference - Buying and Owning Your Own Airplane

Buying an airplane isn't an easy task, but it doesn't have to be difficult either - if you read Buying and Owning Your Own Airplane. This handy, comprehensive guide covers all the information and special considerations for buying your own airplane, including selecting ownership partners and home fields, negotiating sales contracts, and maintaining and upgrading your treasured bird.

This edition has been fully updated. Readers will find new information essential for buying aircraft, including a survey of the most common new and used planes on the market today.

**	Chapters
1	Can I? Should I?
2	Partnerships, clubs, fractional ownership and leasebacks
3	Selecting a home field
4	Selecting your airplane
5	Taking possession: paper and red tape
6	Insurance: the expensive enigma
7	Maintenance and miscellany
8	Engine operating practices and overhauls
9	Good aircraft for the first-time owner
10	Taildraggers and other traditional airplanes
11	High-performance singles: fulfilling the dream
A	Where the aircraft are advertised
B	Aircraft classified ad abbreviations
C	Owner-performed maintenance allowed
D	Type clubs
E	Aircraft manufacturers

About the Author
James E. Ellis is a veteran airplane owner and hot air balloon pilot, a retired Air Force Reserve lieutenant colonel, and a systems engineer for the Titan Corporation at Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts.

Soft Cover
352 pages, Indexed

Publisher
Blackwell Publishers (2004)

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