Airplane Ownership 2nd Edition: Selecting, Inspecting, Financing, Insuring, Hangaring, Maintaining

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Get your first plane!

Here, Ron Wantajja walks you through the exciting process of shopping for, then acquiring and caring for your first airplane. Featuring lots of new information and photographs, this second edition includes the Light Sport category and Sports Pilot license, and emphasizes how to minimize cost of ownership for a wide range of planes. Aviation journalist Wantajja, winner of the 1992 Aviation/Space Writer's Association Award of Excellence, guides you through every step—before and after your purchase.

Expert guidance on:

• Prices and real-world operating expenses
• Cutting the costs of plane ownership
• Sizing up planes, from modern to antiques, used to partially-completed homebuilts
• Privileges and limitation of the Light Sport Aircraft category
• Renting vs. owning; partnerships and leasebacks
• Pitfalls to avoid
• Preownership inspections—avoiding getting burned
• Paperwork needed to buy and register aircraft
• Getting financing and the right insurance
• Updated owner inspection and maintenance procedures—what you can and can't do, illustrated

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• Why buy?
• The cost of ownership
• Picking the plane
• That new-plane smell
• Used aircraft
• Special wings, part 1: antiques and classics
• Special wings, part 2: homebuilts
• Found it!
• The first week
• The first year... and beyond
• Keeping it legal
• Owner maintenance
• Problems
• The answer
• Glossary

With real ownership case histories for old and modern aircraft.

Airplane Ownership 2nd Edition: Selecting, Inspecting, Financing, Insuring, Hangaring, Maintaining