What's in a name? Or a label? When it comes toaircraft engines, a simple label — or, more properly, a logbook notation — cancarry an impressive cache that, in reality, may not mean what you think. A casein point is the value a buyer or owner puts on a "zero-time" engine asopposed to a freshly overhauled powerplant from a field shop. Hands down, thezero-time is thought to be a better engine, since it has all new parts. Except,of course, it might not have all new parts. In some cases, a field overhaulcould have more new parts than a zero-time factory engine.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/ownership/the-zero-time-myth