Buying and Owning Your Own Airplane (eBook EB)

Description

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 partners and home fields, negotiating sales contracts, and maintaining and upgrading your treasured bird.

Inside the fourth edition, readers will find information essential for buying aircraft, including a survey of the most common new and used planes on the market today. Contents include:

• Comprehensive coverage of what first-time owners should consider, with analyses of popular planes.
• An examination of complex single-engine aircraft, so you can expand your horizons into 200+ horsepower singles and retractables.
• Information on taildraggers and other traditional airplanes—as well as new light-sport aircraft.
• Obtaining and retaining insurance coverage and managing all the paperwork involved with the purchase.
• Maintenance, engine operating practices, and overhauls.
• Projections for long-term trends in the aviation industry.
• A complete listing of aircraft owners’ associations specializing in the care of specific types of aircraft.
• Numerous pertinent internet references.

Edition: Fourth
Page Count: 400
ISBN Number: 978-1-61954-168-9
Date Published: 2014
Copyright: © 2014-2025 Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc. All rights reserved.

James E. Ellis is a retired Air Force Reserve lieutenant colonel and systems engineering manager who formerly supported Air Force programs at Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts. With over 2,800 flying hours logged, he holds a single-engine commercial land and sea license with an instrument rating plus a commercial hot air balloon rating. He has flown nearly 300 different aircraft including the Piper Cub, most of the Piper Cherokee series and most Cessna single-engine aircraft, as well as new types including the Lancair Columbia, the Cirrus SR20 and SR22, the Diamond DA-40, and more than a dozen different Light Sport Aircraft. He has owned and flown a Cherokee 180 for 38 years. He conducts EAA Young Eagles flights to inspire a new generation of pilots. Now retired from hot air ballooning after flying balloons for more than 25 years, he has flown hot air balloons at festivals in the U.S., Canada, France and New Zealand. He also lectures, writes for a monthly aviation newspaper, and serves on the Aero Club of New England Cabot Award selection committee.

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