Lately, my maintenance management company SAMM has been receiving an increas-ing number of requests to oversee pre-buy examinations on aircraft ranging from Skylanes to Cirruses to Bonanzas to Golden Eagles. Now, I've been an aircraft owner for more than 40 years, but in all that time I've only bought three airplanes. One of those was a new airplane that I picked up at the factory, so only two of my acquisitions involved pre-buys. This hardly qualifies me as an expert on the subject.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/ownership/the-savvy-aviator-64-the-pre-buy