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Look at it properly before you buy it.
Independent pre-purchase assessment across Europe — inspection, logbook and documentation review, an acceptance flight, and honest mediation. No commission on the price.
What this is
The value is in the logbooks.
Buying an aircraft is a documentation exercise wearing a photograph. Hours, maintenance status, VAT position, damage history and airworthiness records decide what it is worth — and they are exactly what a listing compresses into a paragraph of adjectives.
An assessment goes at those records first, then the aircraft, then the flight. You get findings ranked by what actually affects value and safety, in writing, in a form you can put in front of the seller.
And if it checks out, the same person flies it home — which means the ferry pilot has already read the logbooks.
Scope
What the work covers.
Pre-purchase inspection
A structured look at the aircraft itself, before anyone is emotionally committed to it.
Logbook and records review
Where value is actually decided. Gaps, inconsistencies and the entries that need explaining.
Documentation and status
Airworthiness status, maintenance position and the paperwork a new owner inherits.
Acceptance flight
Flown against a defined profile, with a written report rather than a verbal impression.
Technical mediation
Translating between buyer and seller when the disagreement is technical rather than commercial.
Delivery
Once it checks out, the same person ferries it to your base and hands over in writing.
Typical engagement
How an assessment runs.
Brief
Type, registration, location, asking price and what you already know.
Assess
Aircraft, logbooks and documentation, on site, against a written checklist.
Report
Findings ranked by what actually affects value and safety, in writing.
Deliver
If you proceed, the aircraft is flown home and handed over.
Questions
What buyers ask first.
No. There is no commercial mandate and no commission — the fee is for the assessment and the ferry, and it does not change with the price you agree. That is the only arrangement under which technical advice can be trusted.
Whoever engages me, and only ever one of them on a given aircraft. Where both parties want an independent technical view, that is mediation and it is agreed as such in writing beforehand.
No, and it does not replace one. A maintenance organisation inspects the aircraft to a technical standard. This is an operator-and-engineer view of the aircraft, its records and its documentation, aimed at whether it is the right aircraft to buy. The two work well together.
Then it says so plainly and in writing. That is the outcome the fee is actually buying, and it has saved considerably more than it cost more than once.
Looking at an aircraft?
Send the type, registration, location and what you already know about it.